“ People always say , ‘ When did you make up one’s mind to be a writer ? ’ And I never want to be a writer . I just wrote . ” That ’s Ursula K. Le Guin , speaking in a clip from Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin , an in - progress documentary about the award - succeed scientific discipline fiction and phantasy author . Filmmaker Arwen Curry ’s been work on the undertaking for seven days , and is now turning to crowdfunding to help oneself complete it .
Check out theKickstarter page and video here , which features Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood singing the praises of the 86 - year - old author of The Lathe of Heaven , the Earthsea serial , and many more . Here ’s what Curry writes about her project :
In the film , we ’ll accompany Le Guin on an informal journeying of self - discovery as she get into her own as a major feminist author , inspiring generation of fair sex and other marginalized writers along the way of life . To tell this narrative , the moving-picture show reaches into the past times as well as the future – to a puerility steeped in the myth and stories of disappeared Native peoples Le Guin absorb as the daughter of prominent California anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and writer Theodora Kroeber .
Le Guin ’s chronicle allows consultation to mull on science fiction ’s unique theatrical role in American civilisation , as a conduit for our utopian dreams , apocalyptic veneration , and tempestuous romance with engineering . More than ever , we need to perform the kinds of thought experimentation that Le Guin pioneer , to ask how we should act as our engineering transform us beyond the wildest dream of our grandparents .
Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin , which will run about an hour long , is currently trying to raise funds to unlock a subsidization from the National Endowment for the Humanities . The campaignjust began todayand run through March 4 . The donor perks are somewhat sweet , too — everything from signed books to a covetable tug dish grace with Le Guin ’s hand - drawn map of the world of Earthsea .
Both range courtesy of Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
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