Ursula K. Le Guin creates unforgettable phantasmagorical worlds. More than any other writer, she has made science fiction a legitimate literary form. An award-winning author of novels, short stories, poetry and children's books such as The Left Hand of Darkness,The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia and the Earthsea saga. She promotes an ethic of cross-cultural understanding by peopling her alien worlds with sympathetic characters whose lives are rich in myth and culture, familiar yet mysterious. Recent work includes a collection of short stories, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea and a book of poetry titled, Going Out with the Peacocks.