The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

Le Guin states that she derived the name from " answerable ," as the device would allow its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

In The Word for World Is Forest, Le Guin explains that in order for communication to work with any pair of ansibles, at least one " must be on a large-mass body, the other can be anywhere in the cosmos.

Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.

One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L ' Engle and Orson Scott Card.

Among the authors who made their paperback debuts in Ace Doubles were Philip K. Dick, Samuel R. Delany, Leigh Brackett, Ursula K. Le Guin, and John Brunner.

Both authors were pioneers in feminist criticism of science fiction during the 1960s and 70s through essays collected in The Language of the Night ( Le Guin, 1979 ) and How To Suppress Women's Writing ( Russ, 1983 ).

Feminism in science fiction shōjo manga has been a theme in the works of Moto Hagio among others, for whom the writings of Ursula K. Le Guin have been a major influence.

" Meta-Sf: The Examples of Dick, Le Guin, and Russ.

" — Ursula K. Le Guin, Khatru

* Retrospective Award: Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas ; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin ; The Female Man and " When It Changed " by Joanna Russ

* 1994: " The Matter of Seggri " by Ursula K. Le Guin and Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer

* 1996: " Mountain Ways " by Ursula K. Le Guin, and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in the spring of 1977.

In 2006, Miyazaki's son Gorō Miyazaki completed his first film, Tales from Earthsea, based on several stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hayao Miyazaki had long aspired to make an anime of this work and had repeatedly asked for permission from the author, Ursula K. Le Guin.

When Le Guin finally requested that Miyazaki produce an anime adaptation of her work, he refused, because he had lost the desire to do so.

The author, Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers this differently: " In August 2005, Mr Toshio Suzuki of Studio Ghibli came with Mr Hayao Miyazaki to talk with me and my son ( who controls the trust which owns the Earthsea copyrights ).

* 1993 – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

* The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia ( 1974 ) by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin and others pioneered soft science fiction.

Noteworthy writers in this category include Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

" It was also a period marked by the emergence of a greater variety of voices in science fiction, most notably the rise in the number of female writers, including but not limited to Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr.

Coleman's 1985 work argues that in trying to emulate Le Corbusier's ideas, the tower block planners only succeeded in encouraging social problems.

Le Cornu ( 2009 ) argues a case which links critical thinking to a heightened individualism which she considers is not so prevalent in the East, and suggests that education at all levels should train people in three principal types of thinking and reflection: receptive, appreciative and critical.

He argues that the temperature of bodies must tend to approach that at which the average kinetic energy of a molecule of the body would be equal to the average kinetic energy of an ultra-mundane particle and he states that the latter quantity must be much greater than the former and concludes that ordinary matter should be incinerated within seconds under the Le Sage bombardment.

* The report of the Le Dain Commission argues marijuana should be decriminalized

Laurence Le Quesne argues that one of Jardine's greatest talents, and at the same time greatest weaknesses, was his ability to formulate a winning strategy without consideration of wider contexts such as the social aspect of the game.

In volume 2, Le livre des dieux, Sergent argues that the Celtic and Greek pantheons derive from a common Indo-European inheritance.

argues the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan Le Fanu inaugurated the

Le Gentil also argues that the mention of Avalon shows that he wrote Joseph d ' Arimathe after 1191, when the monks at Glastonbury claimed to have discovered the coffins of King Arthur and Guinevere.

The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 1905.

Its taxation laws have been widely criticised by various people and groups, however the former Chief Minister of Jersey, Terry Le Sueur, has countered these criticisms, saying that " Jersey among cooperative finance centres ".

Among these was the Maison " Citrohan ", a pun on the name of the French Citroën automaker, for the modern industrial methods and materials Le Corbusier advocated using for the house.

Between 1922 and 1927, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed many of these private houses for clients around Paris.

At the 1999 French census, there were 293, 159 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ( aire urbaine ) of Le Mans, with 146, 105 of these living in the city proper ( commune ).

Rabbi Nissim Gaon in his Hakdamah Le ' mafteach Hatalmud writes that many of these laws were so well known that it was unnecessary for Rabbi Judah to discuss them.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

The kings of both of these islands boarded the ships and Le Maire drew up a list of Niuatoputapu words, a language now extinct.

All these terms in prison would have given him ample time to write Le Morte d ' Arthur.

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.

In simultaneous equilibrium systems, phenomena that are in apparent contradiction to Le Chatelier principle can occur ; these can be resolved by the theory of response reactions.

Some of these books included Marquis de Sade's Les Amis de crime, and Le Bordel de Venise.

With these reinforcements, the French were forced to abandon Orléans on 4 December, to be finally defeated at the Battle of Le Mans ( between 10 – 12 January ).

In descending order of population, the largest of these suburbs are Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Le Grand-Quevilly, Le Petit-Quevilly, and Mont-Saint-Aignan, each with a population exceeding 20, 000.

In accordance with the Hampton Court Treaty which they had signed with Condé on 20 September 1562, the English sent troops to support the Protestants, and these occupied Le Havre.

Since the demise of Group C ( where Japan and Germany both had successful series of their own ) Japan has largely gone its own way in sports car racing ; the Super GT series is for very highly modified production-based cars ; although prototypes are slowly returning to Japanese racing in the Japan Le Mans Challenge many of these ' prototypes ' are little more than rebodied Formula 3 cars ( although there has been a long Japanese tradition of such hybrids ; a Grand Champion series ran for many years with rebodied Formula 2 and Formula 3000 cars, rather similar to the second incarnation of Can-Am ).

Tavernier's book, the Six Voyages ( French: Le Six Voyages de ...), contains sketches of several large diamonds that he sold to Louis XIV in possibly 1668 or 1669 ; while the blue diamond is shown among these, Tavernier mentions the mines at " Gani " Kollur as a source of colored diamonds, but made no direct mention of the stone.

Eisenhower persisted with his plans to capture these ports, but some argued that the capture of Le Havre and Antwerp made this unnecessary.

In these plays such as Le Bal des voleurs ( Carnival of Thieves ), Le Rendez-vous de Senlis ( Dinner with the Family ) and Léocadia ( Time Remembered ), the focus is on " the burden of the environment and especially of the past on a protagonist seeking a happier, freer existence.

Of these, the 1921 Le Couteau entre les dents ( The Knife Between My Teeth ) marks Barbusse's siding with Bolshevism and the October Revolution.

Most of these events are free and are held in the historic courtyards of the city or in the modern concert halls of Le Corum.

In exchange, SNCF allows passengers on these flights to book rail service between Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy ( near Paris ) and Aix-en-Provence, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon Part-Dieu, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poiters, Rennes, Tours, and Valence with their airline.