Word: guinness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: Freddy's Book, John Gardner Kennedy for the Defense, George V. Higgins ∙Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin ∙The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter ∙Yellowfish, John Keeble
FICTION: Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙ Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙ The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter Yellowfish, John Keeble...
FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read · Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood · On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett · Shikasta, Doris Leasing · Smiley's People, John le Carre · The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin · Yellowfish, John Keeble
FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙ Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙ Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙ The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin ∙ Yellowfish, John Keeble
Although she has complained in the past that science fiction was not taken seriously enough by mainstream critics, Le Guin now concedes that the form "still hasn't grown up completely." Some of her recent books, including The Beginning Place, Malafrena (1979) and Orsinian Tales (1976), have contained little or no conventional scifi, although she is not considering abandoning the form for good. She still feels challenged by its "total freedom of plot; there are no limits except those of imagination." That is certainly not true of science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month...