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:

Le Guin argues that these criteria may be successfully applied to works of science fiction and so answers in the affirmative her rhetorical question posed at the beginning of her essay: " Can a science fiction writer write a novel?

" 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.

During this period, he also kept up his snowmobiling exploits, winning a number of prestigious races, and had a one-off Sportscar drive at the 1983 24 Hours of Le Mans.

), also known as Le Bel Inconnu, or The Fair Unknown, is a character from Arthurian legend whose exploits are recorded in numerous versions of a popular medieval romance.

Le Corbusier ( Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ) was probably the most creative Swiss architectural export in the 20th century.

* March 2012 in Cahun's home town of Nantes, as part of two seasons on ' Le film et l ' acte de création: Entre documentaire et oeuvre d ' art ' (' Film and the creative act: Between documentary and the work of art ').

Extremely low grade quality has not stopped creative merchants, such as Le Vian, from marketing Dark Brown diamonds as so-called " Chocolate Diamonds ".

The special relationship and brotherly bond that Tony developed with guitarist Ronni Le Tekrø was the creative driving force in the band.

Annually the Society provides an international convention, attended by 1200 + persons, at which students and faculty participate in scholarly and creative paper presentations, workshops, and roundtables, and hear featured speakers such as Billy Collins, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.

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.

Méliès invented many of the techniques of cinematic grammar, and among his fantastic, surreal short subjects is the first science fiction film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ) in 1902 ).

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.

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.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; born October 21, 1929 ) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction.

Le Guin has objected to this classification of her writing, arguing the term is divisive and implies a narrow view of what constitutes valid science fiction.

Being so thoroughly informed by social science perspectives on identity and society, Le Guin treats race and gender quite deliberately.

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness ( the Hainish Cycle ).

The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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

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

The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described ( in this exact form ) by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent ( Future Times Three ).

And Haussmann was a favorite target of the Situationist's critique ; besides pointing out the repressive aims that were achieved by Haussmann's urbanism, Guy Debord and his friends ( who considered urbanism to be a " state science " or inherently " capitalist " science ) also underlined that he nicely separated leisure areas from work places, thus announcing modern functionalism, as illustrated by Le Corbusier's precise zone tripartition ( one zone for circulation, another one for accommodations, and the last one for labour ).

She also wrote science fiction novels, like L ' échiquier du temps and Rêve de feu, Le sous-marin de l ' espace.

* John Eatton Le Conte ( 1784-1860 ), naturalist and a member of one of America's most important early families devoted to science.