The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them * New York Times Book Review * Intelligence gleams in these essays * New York Times * Might there be truth to the commonplace that science fiction writers are prophets? . . . A year ago I argued that Le Guin deserved a Nobel Prize in literature. In fact - what a fantasy! - she ought to be running the country * Washington Post * There are shades of Adrienne Rich here . . . At the end of No Time to Spare . . . all I could think was: I want Le Guin to keep going, on and on. I want to read more * LA Times * This delightful book [ is] inquisitive and stroppily opinionated in equal measure . . . In even these miscellanies, composed in [ Le Guin's] off hours, the sentences are perfectly balanced and the language chosen with care * Wall Street Journal * [ Le Guin's] clever observations and sharp, nimble prose provide a window into the interior life of the award-winning novelist * Harper's Bazaar * Erudite, witty and . . . wise . . . Deep down there: that is where Le Guin has taken readers for decade after decade, and where, these essays show, she is capable of taking them still * Chicago Tribune * The pages pop with life, even as Le Guin, ever sassy, reckons with the toils of aging . . . Young when she's old, spry when she's stiff * Wired *
