I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF. Jo Walton
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Ursula K. Le Guin once said that her worlds are real because her characters are so real. She thinks that the characters are the things that make the worlds real. This means that even though her characters are not normal, they are still people living in normal world. Also, her characters are quite real because their background would make them be the same people living in a normal world.

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