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This reads as a defense of imagination as a practical moral skill, not an escape from reality. It can be taken to mean that imagining other lives helps us understand them, feel for them, and keep faith that things can change, which lands when someone is trying to meet a stranger, a patient, or an opponent with less hardness.
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About Ursula K. Le Guin
American author
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author, active from the late 1950s into the early twenty-first century. She is best known for speculative fiction, especially the science fiction set in her Hainish universe and the fantasy series Earthsea. Her first work appeared in 1959, and her career lasted nearly sixty years. Over that time she wrote more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, along with poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Although she was often described as a science fiction writer, she said she would rather be known as an American novelist.
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Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness
2016
A Wizard of Earthsea
1968
The Dispossessed
1975
The Farthest Shore
1990
The Lathe of Heaven
2008