Worlds of Exile and Illusion

"[The author is] as good as any contemporary at creating worlds, imaginary or our own . . . Le Guin writes with painstaking intelligence. Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace."—Time

"Like all great writers of fiction, Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own."—The Boston Globe

"Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society—technological, political, economic—and who fight courageously to remain whole."—The New York Times Book Review

"Le Guin is the ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction."—The Atlantic Monthly (on Rocannon's World)

"For sheer depth of imagination, Le Guin has few rivals in American literature."—Judith Freeman (on Planet of Exile)

"Le Guin has compassion and hard truthfulness. She is absolutely trustworthy in the invention and realities of the world."—Grace Paley (on City of Illusions)

"[Le Guin] has given much to the genre, not least by showing (through example) how the traditional novelist's interest in questions of character need not be alien to SF."—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (on City of Illusions)