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Usual rule newly broken by good popular science fiction writer (6,2,4,) ??s?l? L? G?I?

Ursula Le Guin, sci-fi author. Anagram of 'usual rule' and 'g', good and 'in', popular..

Thank you Malone thought it was an anagram but could not get as I have not heard of that author. Thanks again.

I thought that this was rather an unfair clue - pretty much impossible unless you had heard of her.
She's probably best known for the Earthsea novels.

Top left causing problems.
2 d prisoner with search for occupation (8)
- - N - - - S -

The occupation is military, most probably...

Con (prisoner) + word for search = word meaning overpowering

ChrisE, I'd never heard of her, but it was such an easy (deliberately easy?) anagram that I got the name very quickly from the letters. I then had to check that she existed!

Thanks everybody, finally got there!

Well done, malone!
I suppose the "2" was probably LE, but both Ursula and Guin are rather unlikely names!
I think that she usually writes her name as Ursula K. LeGuin. Would (8,6) have been as easy?