Em 1971, Ursula Le Guin escreveu o ensaio The View In para o zine Scythrop, antigamente intitulado Australian Science Fiction Review.
People in my line of work are forever being asked three questions: what name do you write under? Where do you get your ideas? Why do you write science fiction?
To the first I answer. What name do you beat your wife under? To the second. Out of my head. That is, I would make these answers if I didn't always remember them several hours later. To the third I have never had a satisfactory answer even several hours later. I shall attempt now to produce an unsatisfactory answer, since John Bangsund asked me Question Three, and John is a man worth answering.
I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels.
