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.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

In France the well-known monthly paper Le Monde Diplomatique has advocated the antiglobalization cause and an editorial of its director Ignacio Ramonet brought about the foundation of the association ATTAC.

Several years ago, the president of the Regional Council, Jean-Yves Le Drian wanted the number to be 20, 000 by 2010, though this has not been accomplished.

Lead singer Dani Filth has often cited Sheridan Le Fanu as an inspiration to his lyrics.

Le déjeuner ( lunch ) is a two hour mid-day meal, but it has recently seen a trend towards the one hour lunch break.

Le Courrier, founded in 1868, was originally supported by the Roman Catholic Church, but has been independent since 1996.

Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy / music program Le Show on Santa Monica's NPR-affiliated radio station, KCRW.

A writer in Le Quotidien de Paris wrote: " The much-feared pyramid has become adorable.

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 ".

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

The gravi-kora has been adopted by kora players such as Daniel Berkman, Jacques Burtin, Le Chant de la Forêt ( The Song of the Forest ), suite for kora, gravi-kora, flute and viola, and Foday Musa Suso, who featured it in recordings with jazz innovator Herbie Hancock, with his band Mandingo, and on Suso's New World Power album.

It caused Escoffier to note when he was asked to write the preface that he could " see with my own eyes ," and " Montagné cannot hide from me the fact that he has used Le Guide as a basis for his new book, and certainly used numerous recipes.

It has been host to the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race since 1923.

* Le Mans has a well-preserved old town ( Cité Plantagenêt, also called Vieux Mans ), where the cobbled streets and half-timbered house fronts provided setting for Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1989 ) and a cathedral: Cathédrale St-Julien, is dedicated to St Julian of Le Mans, who is honoured as the city's first bishop.

The longer and more famous Circuit de la Sarthe is composed partly of public roads, which are closed to the public when the track is in use for racing, and has been host to the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race since 1923.

It has two airports, the main one being Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport at Le Lamentin.

Le Monde diplomatique, however, has alleged that the assassination attempt was organized by Abdullah Çatlı " in exchange for the sum of 3 million marks ", paid by Bekir Celenk to the Grey Wolves.

He has been openly gay throughout his public life, and he has written many novels ( The Duchess and the Commoner, La nuit des princes charmants, Le Coeur découvert, Le Coeur éclaté ) and plays ( Hosanna, La duchesse de Langeais, Fragments de mensonges inutiles ) centred on gay characters.