- Spring 1996 Volume 23, Number 3 Ursula LeGuin's Magical World of Earthsea Jan M. Griffin Ursula K. LeGuin is usually labeled as a science fiction writer. It is a categorization she doesn't exactly appreciate because she writes in many genres other than science fiction. Besides science fiction, LeGuin says of her literature, some of it is fantasy, some of it is realistic, some of it is magical ...scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring96/griffin.html