Aeneas is a main character in Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, a re-telling of the last six books of the Aeneid told from the point of view of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus of Latium.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

Unlike McCaffrey's black crystal transceivers, Le Guin's ansibles are not mated pairs: it is possible for an ansible's coordinates to be set to any known location of a receiving ansible.

Instead of a microphone and speaker, Le Guin's ansibles are attached to a keyboard and small display to perform text messaging.

* Le Guin's comments regarding the similarities to Harry Potter

* Ursula K. Le Guin's official website

In Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novel The Dispossessed, published 1974, mainstream capitalist and state socialist economies on the planet Urras are contrasted with an anarchist self-managed economy on its orbiting twin Anarres.

* Ursula K. Le Guin's Pravic in The Dispossessed

" Three notable texts of this period are Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( 1969 ), Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) and Joanna Russ ' The Female Man ( 1970 ).

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

Joanna Russ's work, and some of Ursula Le Guin's work can be thus categorised.

In 1901, Le Guin's father earned the first Ph. D. in anthropology in the United States from Columbia University and went on to found the second department, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Theodora Kroeber's biography of her husband, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration, is a good source for Le Guin's early years and for the biographical elements in her late works, especially her interest in social anthropology.

The majority of Le Guin's main characters are people of color, a choice made to reflect the non-white majority of humans, and one to which she attributes the frequent lack of character illustrations on her book covers.

The Left Hand of Darkness, along with The Dispossessed and The Telling, are novels within Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, which employs a future galactic civilization loosely connected by an organizational body known as the Ekumen to consider the consequences of contact between different worlds and cultures.

Le Guin's writing notably employs the ordinary actions and transactions of everyday life, clarifying how these daily activities embed individuals in a context of relation to the physical world and to one another.

Themes of Jungian Psychology also are prominent in Le Guin's writing ; for example, her Earthsea fantasy collection explores archetypal shadow and anima images.

Few of Le Guin's major works have been adapted for film or television.

* Davis, Laurence & Peter Stillman, eds, The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's " The Dispossessed " ( New York: Lexington Books, 2005 )

It is also notable for its description of the invention of the new physics that is the basis for the fictional ansible, an instantaneous communications device that plays a critical role in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle.

In keeping with Le Guin's soft science fiction style, the setting is used primarily to explore anthropological and sociological ideas.

Ayn Rand's Anthem, Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano.

Le Guin's story was originally published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973.

In it, the assassin's sword was seen hanging by a single strand of horsehair above Le Peletier's body, a concept inspired by the proverbial ancient tale of the sword of Damocles, which illustrated the insecurity of power and position.

Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur (" The Death of Arthur "), written in 1485, was important in defining the ideal of chivalry which is essential to the modern concept of the knight as an elite warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.

In 1936 Vernadsky accepted the idea of the Noosphere in a letter to Boris Leonidovich Lichkov ( though, he states that the concept derives from Le Roy ).

After the death of Reclus as well as the main proponents of Le Play's ideas, and with Émile Durkheim turning away from his early concept of social morphology, Paul Vidal de la Blache, who noted that geography " is a science of places and not a science of men ", remained the most influential figure of French geography.

* Angèle Kremer-Marietti, Le concept de science positive.

* Collective consciousness ( and Georg Lukács ' critique of Le Bon's crowd psychology, notably through the concept of class consciousness )

Colt historian Herbert Houze wrote that Colt championed the concept of modernism before the word was coined, he pioneered the use of celebrity endorsements to promote his products, he introduced the adjective " new and improved " to advertising and demonstrated the commercial value of brand-name recognition as the word for " revolver " in French is Le Colt.

" However, in his 1883 essay " Le Judaïsme comme race et religion " he disputed the concept that Jewish people constitute a unified racial entity in a biological sense, which made his views unpalatable within racialized antisemitism.

The concept of the Royal Military College was the brainchild of John Le Marchant.

Jacques Le Goff describes the " translatio imperii " concept as typical for the Middle Ages for several reasons: the idea of linearity of time and history was typical for the Middle Ages ; the " translatio imperii " idea typically also neglected simultaneous developments in other parts of the world ( of no importance to medieval Europeans ); the " translatio imperii " idea didn't separate divine history from the history of worldly power: medieval Europeans considered divine ( supernatural ) and material things as part of the same continuum, which was their reality.

Areas of automobilia previously untouched were also seen in new offerings like the groundbreaking 1951 GM Le Sabre concept car ( a name not then associated with Buick ).

He also achieved success with concept albums of his own orchestral suites: Le Sacre Du Sauvage, Festival Of The Gnomes, Ports Of Pleasure, and Brazil Now, the first three for Capitol and the fourth on Gene Norman's Crescendo label.

This was taken by most researchers, including Laplace, as support for the Newtonian concept of instantaneous action at a distance, and to indicate the implausibility of any model such as Le Sage's.

From a more modern point of view, discarding the simple “ push ” concept of Le Sage, the suggestion that the neutrino ( or some other particle similar to the neutrino ) might be the mediating particle in a quantum field theory of gravitation was considered and disproved by Feynman.

It was the production version of the 1952 El Dorado " Golden Anniversary " concept car, and borrowed bumper bullets ( aka dagmars ) from the 1951 GM Le Sabre show car.

Charlotte Spivack points out that City of Illusions includes Le Guin's focus on the concept of contrasts, in particular the need for reconciliation of opposites, a concept related to Taoism, that must take place in Falk's divided mind.

The concept and the name were proposed by 19th century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu — which he located in the Atlantic Ocean.

* Le concept de Dieu après Auschwitz ISBN 2-86930-769-1

These are examples of the limitations and risks inherent in the use of magic and the need to keep a balance, which are central to Le Guin's concept of magic.

A benchmark in Royce ’ s career and thought occurred when he returned to California to speak to the Philosophical Union at Berkeley, and ostensibly to defend his concept of God from the criticisms of George Holmes Howison, Joseph Le Conte, and Sidney Mezes, a meeting the New York Times called “ a battle of the giants .” There Royce offered a new modal version of his proof for the reality of God based upon ignorance rather than error, based upon the fragmentariness of individual existence rather than its epistemological uncertainty.

Patrick Geddes was influenced by social theorists such as Herbert Spencer ( 1820 – 1903 ) and French theorist Frederic Le Play ( 1806 – 1882 ) and expanded upon earlier theoretical developments that lead to the concept of regional planning.

He adopted Spencer's theory that the concept of biological evolution could be applied to explain the evolution of society, and drew on Le Play's analysis of the key units of society as constituting, ‘ Lieu, Travail, Famille ’ (‘ Place, Work, Family ’), but changing the last from " family " to " folk ".

Taking its name from a Renault concept car shown in 1988, the Mégane further developed the new corporate styling theme introduced by Patrick Le Quément on the Laguna, most notably the " bird-beak " front grille-a styling cue borrowed from the Renault 16 of the 1960s.