Ursula K. Le Guin&#39;s Great Unsung Masterpiece  When we were
asking great SF authors to name the books that everybody
pretends to have read, one title came up that we wound up not
including on our list. Vonda McIntyre, author of Dreamsnake, The
Moon and the Sun, and several other classics, mentioned a book
by Ursula K. Le Guin. The only trouble? It's not a book that
people pretend to have read — because it's such an overlooked
classic. Here's what McIntyre told us:  Always Coming Home, by
Ursula K. Le Guin, illustrations by Margaret Chodos and music by
Todd Barton, is a tour de force that was overlooked by the SF/F
community in the year it came out. It's an anthropological
description of a future community, the Kesh, a compendium of
information about them, a science fictional speculation about
the future, poems, recipes, songs, a glossary, music, an
autobiographical novel.  As UKL describes it:  "The people in
this book might be going to have lived a long, long time from
now in Northern California."  I keep