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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...
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