Ursula K Le Guin is of course one of the most respected speculative fiction authors around. And today (yesterday?) she won the 2008 Best Novel Nebula Award, which is pretty much sci-fi’s highest honor. She won it for a book Powers, the third in the Annals of the Western Shore series that I haven’t started reading yet, but it looks pretty exciting.
Ursula K Le Guin is an amazing feminist, pacifist, and anarchist. My interview with her was what started off the project that has become Mythmakers & Lawbreakers.