American science fiction writer, Mrs. Ursula Le Guin, pictured at the Florida Harbour Side Apartments this morning.On planet Earth it's August. We have 12 months to the year, but the planet Gethen has 14.August is Australia's last month of winter. On Gethen that month is Anner.So in August - or Anner - Mrs. Ursula Le Guin, the science-fiction writer, talked of her books, and of the strange planets, people and languages that she creates in her mind.Fortunately, she speaks English, not Gethenian. Her accent is soft American. Rather academic, with a quiet sense of humour, she is in her mid-forties, has dark silvering hair, likes being comfortable in sweater and slacks, and smokes a pipe.From Portland, Oregon, and quite a denizen of this world, she's married to Charles Le Guin, a professor of French history, and has three children, Elisabeth, 18, Caroline, 15, and Theodore, 11. August 19, 1975. (Photo by Kevin John Berry/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).
