“Don’t readers ever get tired of being told that the world is coming to a nasty, ugly end and only a very few people will survive, by luck and by violence?” That’s the question asked by legendary science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin during her 2016 interview published by The Nation. It was a poignant question when it was asked. Five years later, the answer is echoing throughout the halls of the literary world, and it’s a clear and resounding yes!
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Image: Filament of solar material erupting into space as a coronal mass ejection. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (CCA 2.0)