Imaginative literature encourages us to reflect on real and desired worlds. Among sci-fi authors, Ursula Le Guin’s work is particularly evocative for LCHS because the effects of political and social structures on everyday people frequently appear in her narratives. In the collection Four Ways to Forgiveness, for example, there are colonies, there is slavery, there is patriarchy, and there are questions about postwar reconciliation. As editors of LCHS, we publish or hope to publish material on these concerns as well. The quote from the story “A Man of the People” is also relevant because the character who utters it is Havzhiva, an ambassador between two planets. We, too, strive to be bridge-builders within the special universe we have tried to create where authors from diverse backgrounds, employing perspectives and methods from various disciplines, are welcome to tell library stories from around the world and help our profession make...
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