Le Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: [This book] represents the first time that all of Le Guin novellas have been collected in a single volume. Featuring thirteen unforgettable stories, this literary treasure is easily one of the most anticipated collections of the year. In addition to more than 800 pages of extraordinary storytelling, [this book] also includes an introduction from the legendary author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: Earthling Sutty has been living a solitary, well-protected life in Dovza City on the planet Aka as an official Observer for the interstellar Ekumen. Insisting on all citizens being pure "producer-consumers," the tightly controlled capitalist government of Aka--the Corporation--is systematically destroying all vestiges of the ancient ways: "The Time of Cleansing" is the chilling term used to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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Summary: This first volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon’s World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: "Here together for the first time are all five remarkable standalone novels by the writer who transformed American speculative fiction."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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Contents: The first contact with the Gorgonids -- Newton's sleep -- The ascent of the north face -- The rock that changed things -- The Kerastion -- The Shobies' story -- Dancing to Ganam -- Another story, or, A fisherman of the Inland Sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1994
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Summary: "When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2019
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Summary: Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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Summary: A human emissary sent to the world of Winter to bring it into a galactic civilization must find a way to bridge the gulf between his outlook and that of the natives, who can change gender at will
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019