> Her emphasis is not on technobabble or flashy new gadgets. Her style is ...anthropologic. Technology and space travel are there, but in the background.
That sounds like a general description of the "space opera" genre: more emphasis on numerous people and their complex interactions.
If "Space opera" is about the great arches of (imagined) history, Le Guin's stories are more at a human level. Le Guin is not opera, she is chamber music.
That sounds like a general description of the "space opera" genre: more emphasis on numerous people and their complex interactions.