“Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections…Le Guin’s first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered groundbreaking for its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. Her novels The Dispossessed and Always Coming Home redefine the scope and style of utopian fiction.” In a 2023 article on the late author, the New York Times journalist Shreya Chattopadhyay noted LeGuin's to turn “hypothetical elsewhere into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender race and class a far cry from our own” through her ““powerful imagination.”