Ursula Le Guin’s Radical Utopias Still Resonate Today
Ursula K. Le Guin was born on this day in 1929. She used science fiction to explore the failures of capitalist society — and the alternative worlds we could build in its place.
2 Articles by: Nick Hubble
Nick Hubble is a professor of modern and contemporary english at Brunel University. His latest work, Growing Old with the Welfare State, is published by Bloomsbury.
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
From William Morris to Ursula K. Le Guin and Iain M. Banks, science fiction has provided an outlet for socialist thinkers — offering readers a break from capitalist realism and allowing us to imagine a vastly different world.