“If you cannot or will not imagine the results of your actions, there’s no way you can act morally or responsibly,” [Ursula K. Le Guin] told The Guardian in an interview in 2005. “Little kids can’t do it; babies are morally monsters — completely greedy. Their imagination has to be trained into foresight and empathy.” The writer’s “pleasant duty,” she said, is to ply the reader’s imagination with “the best and purest nourishment that it can absorb.”