The Writings of Ursula K. LeGuin

I just found this site and I am brand new here. I just read a list of SF and Fantasy books and I was thrilled to see one of Ursula K. LeGuin's books on the list. Thrilling as it was, I sure was hoping to see my personal favorite book of all times: "Always Coming Home", by Ursula K. LeGuin. The "K" in her name is short for Kroeger, her Father's name. He was an anthropologist at U.C. Berkely around the turn and early years of the 20th century. He was the man who listed all of the tribes of California Indians. He was the man who did the research on Ishi, a native Californian who was discovered living a stone-age existence in 1911, near Chico and Oroville, CA. Ursula grew up under the influence of knowledgeable, educated, famed Parents who obviously had quite an effect on their daughter's later writing. In the book, "Always Coming Home," Ms. LeGuin visualizes a time in the distant future. Long after the rest of us have nuclear powered our way into oblivion, leaving behind vast areas of toxic destruction and unliveable expanses, tiny groups of survivors are living together, learning all over again how to be stewards of the land upon which we live. To write this book, Ms LeGuin has created an entire race of people, their language, their architecture, their rituals, as one reads, it becomes more and more difficult to remember that this is a story of the future, not a novel retelling account of the past. I was entranced each day as I read, marvelling at the depth with which the story is told. While she never mentions it directly, through the use of dialogue and maps and drawings by the author discloses the setting. The story is set right here where I live. Along a creek called Sotoyome, the original name of Santa Rosa Creek, these ground-breaking, history-making simple people are attempting to re-populate the Earth. The ways of these inhabitants, while unique, due to the fact that they live in the far, far future, are basically the same as the ways of the tribes who lived here in the time before white men.
I found this book fascinating and thanks to your listology site, I am now inspired to read more of Ursula K. LeGuin. I would like to recommend to any of you book lovers, the beautiful book, "Always Coming Home" by Ursula K. LeGuin.