Ursula K. Le Guin (Berkeley, California, 1929). Daughter of an anthropologist, this discipline influenced his conception of man involved in cultures that are alien to him. His work can be seen as a broad anthropological-fantastic fresco. Although his literature is entirely fantastic, his texts reveal an undoubted moral proposal to deal with disappearing societies and the metaphysical and cosmic possibilities of contemporary man. Its production is abundant: it has published fifteen novels, three collections of poems, several books for children, two volumes of essays and five books of short stories.