Last night I sat up reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1998 book Steering the Craft, a collection of writing exercises for the “Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew.” I’m currently a lone navigator, getting used to being alone with my craft, so I marked a number of Le Guin’s writing exercises to try out later […]
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Under Three Suns
One of my favorite works of alternate history is Ursula Le Guin’s short story “Sur,” in which a woman reminisces about taking a secret expedition with her girlfriends to discover the South Pole. On a day like today, when the temperature in Wisconsin is -28F and the wind chills are approaching -50F, I find myself […]