And And And, The Public Regret Le Guin Expressed Had An Influence On Ann Leckie's Decision To Use "she"

and and and, the public regret Le Guin expressed had an influence on Ann Leckie's decision to use "she" as the default neutral pronoun in the Radch trilogy!

Orbit Books

He Said, She Said - Orbit Books

I decided pretty early on, when I first was playing with the elements of what would become the universe of ANCILLARY JUSTICE (US | UK | AUS)

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a big deal in feminist science fiction for being one of the first widely popular and critically acclaimed works to do cool shit with sex and gender (which was certainly nothing new, but previous such works had rarely "taken off" the way LHoD did). It was criticized for referring to the genderfluid characters with the indefinite "he," which was a la mode in style guides at the time, instead of using alternating or gender-neutral pronouns. In time Le Guin came to agree with this criticism; she considered her decision not to take things further one of her biggest literary regrets, stating that "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns."

I tell you this only because the phrase "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" is one I think about a lot.

apologies to anyone who ever thought i was cool and reached out to me only to discover i am just a weird little hermit who can't carry on a conversation to save my life

Leia looked across the transport and saw Tala offering comfort, and immediately clocked that Obi-Wan needed the same and that she could offer it, because Leia is still a child but she's a quick study and gets people, and because she saw Obi-Wan wearing his pain raw and right there on the surface. But the question is, who's going to offer ME comfort after that little moment snuck up and thoroughly wrecked me emotionally

Just started Harrow the Ninth (for the first time) and current feelings:

yesssss let's get weeeeeird with it

oh no this is going to slowly grind me through the emotional mangle

The sequel to Knives Out is officially titled “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mistery”

The DAY this newsletter went out, I changed the working title of Project Tallneck AGAIN.

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