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200

This is "an SF and fantasy aesthetic that combines past and present".

What is steampunk?

Page 15

200

Author of Ishi in Two Worlds and Ishi, Last of His Tribe (must have first and last name.)

Who is Theodora Kroeber?

Page 29

200

This quote: "Unaggressive, placid, milquetoast, repressed, conventional" describes this character

Who is George Orr?

200

"as if something ugly and monstrous would have blasted his eye-sight, had he been betrayed into a glance."

What is "Rappaccini's Daughter"?

Page 61

200

Doctor Le Guin consulted with while writing "Lathe"

Who is Dr. William Dement?

Page 46

400

Author of The Marrow Thieves.

Who is Cherie Dimaline?

Page 16-17

400

Address of Le Guin's home in Berkeley

What is 1325 Arch Street?

Page 30

400

Complete the headline from the novel: "Big A-! Strike Near ____ Border"

What is Afghan?

400

"What do you have here that you couldn’t have more of with us?”

What is "Childfinder"?

Page 107

400

Alternate name for "The Ring of Fire"

What is "Circum-Pacific Belt"?

Page 44

600

Asimov's code for robots

What is The Three Laws of Robotics?

Page 25

600

Le Guin's representation of herself

What is "that of a playful child who was unaware of the darker things in life"?

Page 31

600

Character who says this: "the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything" about Orr.

Who is Heather Lelache?

600

"I lie here in the bedroom which was my childish place seventy, O seventy, believe it, seventy years ago."

What is "I Sing the Body Electric!"?

Page 102

600

SNCC Stands for this

What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

Page 48

800

Painter of "The Dream", 1883.

Who is Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes?

Page 24

800

Le Guin said this "The Nebula and Hugo Awards for that book come to me as validation when I most needed it" about this novel

What is The Left Hand of Darkness?

Page 32

800

One of the two Aldebaranians mentioned by name.

Who are Tiua’k Ennbe or E’nememen Asfah?

800

“That access is totally random …”

What is "Snow"?

Page 117

800

"Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant)" is a quote by this author, from this novel.

Who is H.G. Wells and "A Modern Utopia"?

1000

Artist of "Prometheus bringing fire to mankind"

Who is Heinrich Friedrich Füger?

Page 20

1000

She was named this by the Library of Congress

What is a Living Legend?

Page 33

1000

Where Lelache's parents met

What is at a political demonstration?

1000

"We automatically watch the eyes of the friend we speak with"

What is "No Woman Born"?

Page 130

1000

Directors of the film version of The Lathe of Heaven

Who are David Loxton and Fred Barzyk?

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