Le Guin is certainly on the softer side of the sci-fi scale of hardness.
That said, there's plenty of sci-fi (and by that I mean books that have been categorized as such for so long, it's generally considered undisputed - like, say, pretty much all of Bradbury and most of Simak) that are much softer.
That said, there's plenty of sci-fi (and by that I mean books that have been categorized as such for so long, it's generally considered undisputed - like, say, pretty much all of Bradbury and most of Simak) that are much softer.