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'No Time to Spare' is an enjoyable visit with literary giant Ursula Le Guin (and her cat)

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters is a pleasing read and an engaging look behind the curtain, into the life and mind of award-winning author Ursula Le Guin.

LeGuin, of course, is a national treasure. As one of America’s leading science fiction writers (although she has said that she prefers to be simply known as a novelist), LeGuin has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and too many other literary prizes to be able to list them

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