Status Updates From The Language of the Night: ...

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Break just before an essay that I know is going to take my entire brain power to get through (it's long).

Yet another chapter of Ursula being the most progressive writer of her time, which is now way behind the times. I wish she had not died in 2018. Fantasy and sci-fi are rapidly changing, and she's not here to see it and comment on it. I would want to know what she thinks of what's being published right now. Romantasy. SPFBO. The huge boom in diverse stories getting published. The aftermath of covid. I want to know.

Advice from Ursula on how to write:
Just write. Go on. Sit down and write. Scary advice. She's very brave for telling everyone to write.

Skipped the essay about Philip K. Dick. I don't know his works well enough to appreciate that one. And by well enough I mean at all.

But at the same time, I appreciate what she did for fantasy and sci-fi. She was a radical writer at the time, writing about things no one else dared to write. Fantasy and sci-fi would not be the genre it is without her, and for that, I will always respect her legacy on the two genres. I wish she was still with us :(

I'm admittedly not the biggest fan of Ursula's books. Mostly because I'm living in a time so far advanced in regard to the issues she was talking about with her books, that I feel like her thought experiments are a little bit old hat. The best example of this is The Left Hand of Darkness. We've gone so far in gender studies beyond that, to the point that it's almost historical.

Ursula says she didn't write The Left Hand of Darkness just so she could write the line "The king was pregnant," but I don't know if I believe her. That's a really good line. I'd write an entire book around that line if I'd thought of it first. And immediately all the tiktok people would be going nuts over the new mpreg book and I'd be rich and famous instantly. Too bad she wrote that in 1969 and not 2025.