Acclaimed sci-fi author Ursula LeGuin died this week at the age of 88, described a writer's duty

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First coming to prominence in 1968 with the first of part of her Earthsea series, over the decades her work brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy. Gordon Brewer talks to the novelist Una McCormack, who is also co-director of the Anglia Ruskin University Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy. Photograph © Jack Liu