When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.<br /><br />Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.

“Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . . . she is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscapes of the mind.” – Cincinnati EnquirerThe recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

<b>A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.</b><br /><br /><i>Words Are My Matter</i> is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—and, through the lens of literature, gives us a way of exploring the world around us.<br />  <br /> In “Freedom,” Le Guin notes: “Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now … to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom—poets, visionaries—realists of a larger reality.”<br /><br /> Le Guin was one of those authors and in <i>Words Are My Matter</i> she gives us just that: a vision of a better reality, fueled by the power and might and hope of language and literature.

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony &amp; military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence &amp; wisdom, overturning the ancient society.<br /> <br />Humans have learned interstellar travel from the Hainish (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including Athsheans). Various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it's learned that the League of All Worlds has been formed. News arrives via an ansible, a new discovery. Previously they had been cut off, 27 light years from home.<br /><br />The story occurs after The Dispossessed, where both the ansible &amp; the League of Worlds are unrealised. Also well before Planet of Exile, where human settlers have learned to coexist. The 24th century has been suggested.<br /> <br />Terran colonists take over the planet locals call Athshe, meaning "forest," rather than "dirt," like their home planet Terra. They follow the 19th century model of colonization: felling trees, planting farms, digging mines &amp; enslaving indigenous peoples. The natives are unequipped to comprehend this. They're a subsistence race who rely on the forests &amp; have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery or war. The invaders take their land without resistance until one fatal act sets rebellion in motion &amp; changes the people of both worlds forever.

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion."
Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny.
When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.

Deux mondes se font face : Anarres, peuplé deux siècles plus tôt par des dissidents soucieux de créer enfin une société utopique vraiment libre, même si le prix à payer est la pauvreté. Et Urras qui a, pour les habitants d'Anarres, conservé la réputation d'un enfer, en proie à la tyrannie, à la corruption et à la violence. Shevek, physicien hors normes, a conscience que l'isolement d'Anarres condamne son monde à la sclérose. Et, fort de son invention, l'ansible, qui permettra une communication instantanée entre tous les peuples de l'Ekumène, il choisit de s'exiler sur Urras en espérant y trouver une solution.

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 accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work.

Stories include:
-Brothers and Sisters
-A Week in the Country
-Unlocking the Air
-Imaginary Countries
-The Diary of the Rose
-Direction of the Road
-The White Donkey
-Gwilan’s Harp
-May’s Lion
-Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight
-Horse Camp
-The Water Is Wide
-The Lost Children
-Texts
-Sleepwalkers
-Hand, Cup, Shell
-Ether, Or
-Half Past Four
-The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
-Semely’s Necklace
-Nine Lives
-Mazes
-The First Contact with the Gorgonids
-The Shobies’ Story
-Betrayals
-The Matter of Seggri
-Solitude
-The Wild Girls
-The Flyers of Gy
-The Silence of the Asonu
-The Ascent of the North Face
-The Author of the Acacia Seeds
-The Wife’s Story
-The Rule of Names
-Small Change
-The Poacher
-Sur
-She Unnames Them
-The Jar of Water

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

Warning: the visionary women writers in this landmark anthology may permanently alter perceptions of American science fiction, challenging the conventional narrative that the genre was conceived mainly by and for men. Now, two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of the female tradition in American science fiction, in the most comprehensive collection of its kind ever published. From Pulp Era pioneers to New Wave experimentalists, here are over two dozen brilliant writers ripe for discovery and rediscovery, including Leslie F. Stone ("The Conquest of Gola," 1931), Judith Merril ("That Only a Mother," 1948), Leigh Brackett ("All the Colors of the Rainbow," 1957), Kit Reed ("The New You," 1962), Joanna Russ ("The Barbarian," 1968); Ursula K. Le Guin ("Nine Lives," 1969), and James Tiptree Jr. ("Last Flight of Dr. Ain," 1969). Imagining strange worlds and unexpected futures, looking into and beyond new technologies and scientific discoveries, in utopian fantasies and tales of cosmic horror, these women created and shaped speculative fiction as surely as their male counterparts. Their provocative, mind-blowing stories combine to form a thrilling multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery.

Contents:
Introduction / Lisa Yaszek --
The miracle of the lily / Clare Winger Harris --
The conquest of Gola / Leslie F. Stone --
The black god's kiss / C. L. Moore --
Space episode / Leslie Perri --
That only a mother / Judith Merril --
In hiding / Wilmar H. Shiras --
Contagion / Katherine Maclean --
The inhabited men / Margaret St. Clair --
Ararat / Zenna Henderson --
All cats are gray / Andrew North --
Created he them / Alice Eleanor Jones --
Mr. Sakrison's halt / Mildred Clingerman --
All the colors of the rainbow / Leigh brackett --
Pelt / Carol Emshwiller --
Car pool / Rosel George Brown --
For sale, reasonable / Elizabeth Mann Borgese --
Birth of a gardener / Doris Pitkin Buck --
The tunnel ahead / Alice Glaser --
The new you / Kit Reed --
Another rib / John Jay Wells & Marion Zimmer Bradley --
When I was Miss Dow / Sonya Dorman --
Baby, you were great / Kate Wilhelm --
The barbarian / Joanna Russ --
The last flight of Dr. Ain / James Tiptree Jr --
Nine lives / Ursula K Le Guin --
Biographical notes.

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.
“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks to the language of the night.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator. The book and each thematic section are brilliantly introduced and contextualized by Susan Wood, a professor at the University of British Columbia and a literary editor and feminist activist during the 1960s and ’70s.
A fascinating, intimate look into the exceptional mind of Le Guin whose insights remain as relevant and resonant today as when they were first published.

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters .

As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar , turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.

Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin's brilliant and magical trilogy.

Cover Illustration: Jonathan Field

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings.

The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family.

Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.

Davidson, le capitaine, sait ce qu'il a à faire. La Terre manque de bois ; Athshe, la planète-forêt, en fournit autant qu'il faut. Les créâtes, ces singes verts, abattent les arbres sous les ordres de Davidson. Athshe deviendra un vrai paradis et les créâtes n'en profiteront pas.
Le seul qui les protège, c'est Lyubov, ce crétin de spé. Il a sauvé l'un deux, Selver, qui renâclait parce qu'on avait tué sa femme. Un comble ! Et maintenant Selver et quelques autres ont fui dans la forêt ; ils sont un peu moins rêveurs ; ils deviennent violents, commes les umins. Mais le pire, c'est que la Terre entre dans la Ligue des Mondes et qu'il faut arrêter le massacre. Et Selver songe à se venger en chantant. Alors là, non ! non ! NON !

Ursula Le Guin, née en 1929, est la fille de l'ethnologue Theodora Kroeber. Depuis des années, elle occupe dans la S.F. une place à part : sans méconnaître les cauchemars ambiants, elle édifie des univers chatoyants où des personnages étrangement sereins s'essaient à tenir compte des autres, à respecter leurs particularités, à vivre ensemble tout simplement. Elle a obtenu le prix Hugo en 1975, pour son roman les Dépossédés.

Po raz pierwszy w jednym tomie!

„Ziemiomorze” Ursuli K. Le Guin to jeden z najznakomitszych cykli literatury fantasy, porównywany z dziełami J.R.R. Tolkiena czy C.S. Lewisa. Opisuje malowniczy świat pełen wysp, smoków i tajemnic, w którym najważniejsza jest równowaga między tworzącymi go siłami. Głównym bohaterem serii jest czarnoksiężnik Ged; poszczególne części opowiadają jego losy – od najmłodszych lat i pierwszych kroków stawianych w świecie magii, aż po czasy gdy zaczęła się ona stawać niebezpiecznym narzędziem w rękach zła.
Ged, którego Ziemiomorze na zawsze zapamięta jako Krogulca, zostaje wysłany na wyspę Roke, aby tam zgłębiać czarnoksięską sztukę. Jest obdarzony niezwykłymi magicznymi zdolnościami, więc po latach nauki zostaje Arcymagiem, który będzie musiał pomóc Najwyższej Kapłance Archipelagu – Tenar – uciec z labiryntu ciemności.

Niestety, wraz z upływem lat równowaga Ziemiomorza zacznie się chwiać coraz bardziej, a prawdziwa magia i pradawne zwyczaje coraz częściej wykorzystywane będą przez mroczne siły zła i śmierci…

Saga o Ziemiomorzu to opowieść o dojrzewaniu, o wyzbywaniu się młodzieńczej pychy i ducha rywalizacji, dorastaniu do wewnętrznej harmonii i mądrości, ale też zrozumienia ograniczoności ludzkich działań. Im większa moc i im większa władza, tym większa odpowiedzialność – przestrzega Le Guin.
„Wysokie obcasy”

Potrzebowałam sześciu książek i trzydziestu lat życia, by opowiedzieć historię Geda i Tenar. W tym czasie nieustannie dowiadywałam się czegoś nowego o krainach i ludach Ziemiomorza – bo wszystkie przygody i odkrycia bohaterów były też moimi przygodami i odkryciami. (…) I oto wreszcie macie przed sobą ukończoną historię. Oby lektura sprawiła wam równie wielką przyjemność, jak mnie jej pisanie!
Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin urodziła się 21 października 1929 r. w Berkeley. Jej książki stały się klasyką nie tylko fantastyki. To już kanon literatury pięknej – analizowany, poddawany badaniom literackim, antropologicznym i psychoanalitycznym. Pisze dla dorosłych, młodzieży i dla dzieci. Jest autorką scenariuszy filmowych i esejów oraz tekstów piosenek. Została uhonorowana wszelkimi możliwymi nagrodami przyznawanymi twórcom science fiction i fantasy, z Nebulą, Hugo i World Fantasy Award na czele. Amerykańska Biblioteka Kongresu określiła ją mianem Żyjącej Legendy wśród pisarzy. Od 1958 roku mieszka w Portland w stanie Oregon.

"Three kinds of creature came from Earth to Victoria: Men, Lice and Shanty-Towners"
These are the words of Falco, leader of the City people. They were the first to come to the penal colony of Victoria, sent from the cities of Brasil-America in one-way space-ships. When the People of Peace were sent there from Can-America, sixty years later, they found the City had been built, and they were not welcome. They had to live in Shantih and the City people called them vermin.

But now Falco faces a double threat: the growing restlessness of the pacifist Shanty-Towners and the growing consciousness of his daughter, Luz, in a male—dominated society.

A new world, a frightening crisis of future-history, an intense drama of human relationships, The Eye of the Heron is Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin at her best.

Also in this volume, four stories and a novelette by some of the most exciting women writers in science fiction today:

- No One Said Forever by Cynthia Felice
- The Song Of N'Sardi-el by Diana L. Paxson
- Jubilee's Story by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- Mab Gallen Recalled by Cherry Wilder
- Phoenix in the Ashes by Joan D. Vinge

Listening time: 5H 30M

Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion - the Telling.

Intrigued by their beliefs, Sutty joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains...and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul.

Writing dissection, coaching, and exercises

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time

The Newbery Honor–winning second novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful new repackage.

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from her—home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, and guards the shadowy, labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan.
Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the Tombs’ greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Tenar’s duty is to protect the Ring, but Ged possesses the light of magic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known. Will Tenar risk everything to escape from the darkness that has become her domain?
With millions of copies sold worldwide, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Now the full Earthsea collection—A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, and The Other Wind—is available with a fresh, modern look that will endear it both to loyal fans and new legions of readers.