Mellorine
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Pretty sure LeGuin was just a salty bitch about her own boy-goes-to-wizard-school novels not being appreciated the way she wanted. She raged at her publisher for the cover art and shat all over the tv adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea. She had a lot of unconcealed bitter emotions around how that series was marketed and received.
Most adaptations are. It's no secret what happens to most books that get turned into tv, especially then. Either take the Micheal Caine Jaws IV approach and cash the check with a smile or don't sell the rights. Or use your clout like a certain other author did and insist you be given contractually guaranteed veto power over the casting and script.With good cause. It was terrible.
I know she's a legend, but everybody told me to start with a short story that I found so contrived and morally facile that I've reflexively loathed her for years.She was one of the best SF writers of all time, and I don't mean best women SF writers but just best writers period.
I don't care how great her body of work was, that story is the most Ana Mardoll flavored thing I've ever read.Let me guess - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas?
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