Not really a meme, I know, but I thought this was amazing and worth sharing and I didn’t know where else to share it on Lemmy.

Ursula LeGuin was an incredible person and, although she did live a long life, her death was still a huge loss.

  • Flying SquidOPEnglish
    16•5 days ago

    I have re-read all of the books and short stories a couple of times. They’re really good. The BBC did a radio dramatization of the books a few years ago. It was pretty abridged, but still worth hearing.

    Mainly though, I just wanted to point out how Rowling very clearly used LeGuin as a source for her books (along with the Worst Witch books, the first of which came out when she was exactly the right age to have read them).

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)English
      1•5 days ago

      Haven’t heard of the worst witch, I don’t think, unless that’s the one that also uses a magical platform at kings cross

      • Flying SquidOPEnglish
        3•4 days ago

        If you’re British, I can’t explain that. If you aren’t, it’s big in the UK (or at least used to be?) not only a whole book series, but a movie and a TV series.

        The movie stars a very young Fairuza Balk and was big enough to get Diana Rigg and Tim Curry in it.

        So not exactly Harry Potter, but still well-known. And certainly known well enough for Rowling to not have only heard of them, but very likely at least read the first one because she was 9 years old when it came out, which is pretty much the perfect age for that book.