QUESTION:

You and Ursula LeGuin are my favorite science fiction authors. Alas, LeGuin passed away, and so I find myself (having read her entire science fiction oeuvre already) looking for more authors that can write like her. There's a sort of transcendent quality to her writing that it's hard to put my finger on. At the same time, she looked at humanity head-on, with neither delusion nor cynicism. Could you recommend some other writers like her? I'm sorry if the question is vague or incoherent.

OSC REPLIES:

The first author that comes to mind is Octavia Butler. I started with Wild Seed and the Xenogenesis series. I highly recommend them