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I came to say that my favorite book read this year is her "The Birthday of the World and Other Stories".

Very nice to read science fiction that is about people rather than things.

I also like Theodore Sturgeon and Cordwainer Smith for people-centered science fiction.

I love Cordwainer Smith. I vividly remember reading "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell" as a teenager in the 60's. It had a huge effect on me, and I still have that copy of Galaxy magazine.

I just read that story based on your recommendation - thank you! I might be just a tiny bit better as a person now than I was before reading it.

For fellow fans of le Guin, Sturgeon and Smith looking for more authors, I would recommend Lois McMaster Bujold. Space opera adventures on the surface, but with subtle depths and insights into human nature. Or for something more recent, Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series; we have solved world hunger, achieved gender equality and invented flying cars, but what are the implications for world politics and human interactions?

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