Anastasia Pease is a scholar and an award-winning teacher. She loves working as a Senior Lecturer in English at Union College in Schenectady, NY.  Officially a specialist in American Literature, she also studies and teaches many other subjects; for instance, her two most recent publications focus on the life and works of Oscar Wilde.  Moreover, Anastasia has an educated-native proficiency in Russian, so she regularly teaches intermediate and advanced Russian courses. Her many other interests include science literacy education, second-language acquisition, linguistics, literary translation, poetry, science fiction, and world literature. A long-time fan and scholar of the works of the late Ursula K. Le Guin, Anastasia dedicates her essay in this volume to Le Guin’s memory.