{"id":583,"date":"2014-09-11T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T21:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2014-09-20T02:33:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T02:33:43","slug":"creator-of-the-earthsea-books-to-receive-an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Creator of the Earthsea books receives award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this at the blog The Marysue &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/ursula-k-le-guin-distinguished-medal\/\">Neil Gaiman to Present Ursula K. Le Guin With Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the nation\u2019s most revered writers of science fiction and fantasy, Le Guin\u2019s fully imagined worlds challenge readers to consider profound philosophical and existential questions about gender, race, the environment, and society. Her boldly experimental and critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and children\u2019s books, written in elegant prose, are popular with millions of readers around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ursulakleguin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ursulakleguin.jpg\" alt=\"ursulakleguin\" width=\"280\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ursulakleguin.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ursulakleguin-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would like to build a Minecraft world that is a collection of far-flung islands. I got this idea from Ursula Le Guin&#8217;s series of Earthsea books &#8212; I loved spending time in the world she envisioned, and want to have my own parallel universe version.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/le-guin-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/le-guin-books.jpg\" alt=\"le guin books\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/le-guin-books.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/le-guin-books-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is a map of Le Guin&#8217;s fictional world, Earthsea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Map_of_Earthsea-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Map_of_Earthsea-2.jpg\" alt=\"Map_of_Earthsea 2\" width=\"650\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Map_of_Earthsea-2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Map_of_Earthsea-2-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Map_of_Earthsea-2-500x377.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8b\/Map_of_Earthsea.jpg\">\u00a0click here to see a poster-sized version of the map! <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this at the blog The Marysue &#8212; Neil Gaiman to Present Ursula K. Le Guin With Lifetime Achievement Award Among the nation\u2019s most revered writers of science fiction and fantasy, Le Guin\u2019s fully imagined worlds challenge readers to consider &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/?p=583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slightly-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.horsetailnebula.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}