Futura, 1969. Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction — winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf...
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) by Ursula K. Le Guin Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. — 256 p. ISBN10: 0151009716 ISBN13: 9780151009718 Changing Planes is a delightful collection of vignettes bound tightly together by the premise of a travel book for those who want to visit alternate planes of reality. These alternate planes can be readily reached by anyone who is waiting in an airport lounge between flights. Written with the...
Earthsea fantasy novels: A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 (Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, 1979) The Tombs of Atuan, 1971 (Newbery Honor winner, 1972) The Farthest Shore, 1972 (National Book Award winner) Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Nebula Award winner, 1990;[23] Locus Fantasy Award winner, 1991[24]) Tales from Earthsea, 2001 (Short Stories) The Other Wind, 2001 (World...
New York. Berkley Books. 1979. - 353 p. Language: English. Historical novel. This novel is not fantasy, but a historical narrative. Malafrena is about freedom, and discovering freedom, whatever shape it may take. Itale Sorde, raised in mountainous Malafrena in the imaginary land of Orsinia, becomes absorbed in the legacy and promise of the French Revolution. Abandoning his...
The Day Before the Revolution' won the Nebula Award for the best science-fiction short story of 1974. Ursula's The Dispossessed won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for the best novel of 1974. The Le Guin award-winning spree began with her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won both the Nebula and Hugo awards and to my mind did more to exploit the potential of the...
Saga Press, 2016. - 816 c. - ISBN10: 1481451391; ISBN13: 978-1481451390. Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time — and introduced by the legendary author — in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery...
Saga Press, 2016. - 816 c. - ISBN10: 1481451391; ISBN13: 978-1481451390. Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time — and introduced by the legendary author — in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery...
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle#2) When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the...
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