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We used to use Lathe Of Heaven as a first-year engineering discussion tool to get 18-year-olds thinking about engineering ethics and power
Had a hard time 'getting into' reading Ursula, but a loss to sci-fi nonetheless.
A Wizard of Earthsea was okay, but Orsinian Tales was not. I enjoyed The Left Hand of Darkness.
May she rest in the halls of her ancestors.
The tombs of Atuan. I read it one balmy summer with oceans of free time. I couldn't put it down. I believe I was 12 or so. When it was done, it felt like a punch in my stomach.
Thank you, Ursula. You were a giant in sparking my love of fantasy. Rest in peace.
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This is such a huge loss.
Lathe of Heaven hooked me, but the collection of Hainish stories in Worlds of Exile and Illusions are what reeled me in, especially Semley's tragic story in Rocannon's World, and that was just the prologue. From there it was Eye of the Heron, Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, Tehanu, The Telling, Changing Planes ... There are too many to list.
She could write like no one else. Her prose is beautiful, her stories always so personal. Even Lathe has incredible depth for what is arguably one of her lightest, most accessible novels. Reading her works is a moving experience.