A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K. Le Guin--selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories. She has won multiple prizes and accolade[...]
Combining The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real, this comprehensive boxed set contains many of Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning short stories and novellas.
For the first time in her career, the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin has combined her most iconic short stories and novellas into[...]
Combining The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real, this comprehensive boxed set contains many of Ursula K. Le Guin's most treasured and award-winning short stories and novellas. For the first time in her career, the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin has combined her most iconic short stories an[...]
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In 1985, the travel writer Jan Morris visited the storied city- state of Hav on assignment for "New Gotham Magazine," writing a series of articles that were later published as "Last Letters from Hav." She was there during the remarkable period that became known a[...]
A new collection of engaging and diverse nonfiction writings from the beloved, award-winning author--talks and essays at the crossroads of literature, feminism, social critique, and creative vision.[...]
For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author. In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew t[...]
For more than a half century, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary science fiction has expanded boundaries and ambitions of the genre, bringing new literary aspiration to bold explorations of sexuality and gender, race and power, and the meaning of freedom. This volume, the first in a deluxe two-volume edi[...]
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of "the nature of human nature," as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guin's subject[...]
Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the biggest and [...]
Ursula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her death
This fourth volume in the Library of America's definitive Ursula K. Le guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career m[...]
An anthology of short stories that presents a journey through alternate histories and projections of the future in which the world's diversity is reflected.[...]
"Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin" assembles interviews with the renowned science-fiction and fantasy author of "The Left Hand of Darkness," "The Dispossessed," "The Lathe of Heaven," and the "Earthsea" sequence of novels and stories. For nearly five decades, Le Guin (b. 1929) has enjoyed immens[...]
"The Unreal and the Real" is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories--as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself--the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the [...]
"Outer Space, Inner Lands" includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, [...]
The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dre[...]
Orrec, the son of the Brantor of Caspromant, and Gry, daughter of the Brantors of Barre and Rodd, have grown up together, running half-wild across the Uplands. The people there are like their land: harsh and fierce and prideful; ever at war with each other. Only the gifts keep the fragile peace. The[...]
Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is[...]
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions are semi artic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. And when a[...]
The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous[...]
George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality ' and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Hab[...]
When the New York Times called Ursula K. Le Guin, "America's greatest living science fiction writer," they just might have undersold her legacy. It's hard to look at her vast body of work--novels and stories across multiple genres, poems, translations, essays, speeches, and criticism--and see anythi[...]
Ön Gont är en stormhärjad klippa i Nordhavet, berömd för sina trollkarlar. Sparvhök heter en av dem, en stolt och enstörig pojke som törstar efter kunskap, och han ska bli störst av dem alla. Men han använder sina krafter för tidigt och kallar upp en skugga från dödsriket som han måste[...]