Dentre as temáticas do universo sci-fi, nenhuma delas é tão popular, envolvente e plural quanto as viagens no tempo. Esta coletânea reúne, em um único volume e pela primeira vez no Brasil, dezoito contos de alguns dos gigantes do universo sci-fi, abrangendo cinco décadas, de 1940 a 1990, e incluindo desde “Um Som de Trovão”, de Ray Bradbury, que inspirou o nome da famosa teoria do Efeito Borboleta, até Ursula K. LeGuin, em “Outra História ou um Pescador do Mar Interior”, ou mesmo uma ideia impensável, como no conto do premiado Jack Dann “Inversão do Tempo”, que propõe respostas surpreendentes para uma pergunta perturbadora: e se todos viajassem no tempo, menos você?

Escrito em 1974 pela brilhante e premiada Ursula K. Le Guin, Os Despossuídos é uma ficção científica incomum, utópica e distópica, sobre dois planetas gêmeos separados por conflitos e desconfianças, e um homem que arriscará tudo para reuni-los.

Urras é um mundo de abundantes recursos dividido em vários estados-nação. Em meio a extremos de riqueza e pobreza, dois deles estão em guerra para estender sua influência – e seu sistema político – sobre os demais. Anarres, por sua vez, é o planeta recluso e anarquista gêmeo de Urras, cuja visão utópica de seus colonizadores acabou criando uma ilusão de sociedade perfeita. Essa ilusão só é quebrada quando Shevek, um jovem físico brilhante de Anarres, descobre a Teoria da Simultaneidade, uma ideia que pode acabar com o isolamento de seu planeta e, ao mesmo tempo, avivar as guerras do planeta vizinho.

Seguindo o estilo de Le Guin, este livro aborda questões de fundo sociológico, como liberdade, desigualdade, individual versus coletivo, e temas políticos cruciais, como anarquismo e polarizações políticas. Embora seja fruto da influência da Guerra Fria, este livro continua cativante e extremamente atual. Situado no mesmo universo ficcional de A mão esquerda da escuridão , outro clássico da autora, Os Despossuídos recebeu o prêmio Nebula em 1974 e os prêmios Hugo e Locus em 1975.

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 Word of Unbinding" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters .

There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone's surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications. The Corporation expects Sutty to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people 're-educated'. But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.

“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. "Winter's King" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction , visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.

This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.

With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.

Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she has found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the long lines at the toilets, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, the bookless bookstores, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor.

This method - changing planes - enables Sita to visit fifteen societies not found on Earth. She will encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. And many other exotic landscapes whose denizens are fundamentally human...

乌苏拉·K·勒吉恩 (Ursula K. Le Guins) 永恒而受人尊敬的A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel 由广受赞誉的艺术家弗雷德·福德汉姆 (Fred Fordham) 重新演绎，他是《杀死一只知更鸟》和《美丽新世界》的精彩改编作品的创作者，在一部内容丰富的图画小说中重新演绎。
格得是地海伟大的魔法师，但他年轻时却是鲁莽的雀鹰。他渴望权力和知识，篡改了长期保守的秘密，给世界带来了可怕的阴影。
这是他经历考验的动荡故事，讲述了他如何掌握强大的力量之语，驯服一条古龙，并跨越死亡的门槛恢复平衡。
体验厄休拉·勒古恩的《地海传奇》畅销书的初次冒险，这是一部精心制作的图画小说。弗雷德·福特汉姆用他令人惊叹的插图和深思熟虑的文本改编为勒古恩的标志性奇幻经典注入了新的生命。
Ursula K. Le Guins timeless and revered A Wizard of Earthsea is reimagined in a richly expansive graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham, creator of stunning adaptations To Kill a Mockingbird and Brave New World.
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and unleashed a terrible shadow upon the world.
This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
Experience the bestselling first adventure of Ursula K. Le Guins Books of Earthsea as a masterly crafted graphic novel. Fred Fordham brings new life to Le Guin's iconic fantasy classic with his breathtaking illustrations and thoughtful text adaptation.

A brilliant physicist attempts to reunite two planets separated by centuries of distrust, facing hostility, threats, and personal sacrifice in his quest to tear down walls of hatred and ignite change.

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 colleagues, so he travels to Anarres’s sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.

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Ursula K. Le Guin revisits her popular Hainish universe with four interconnected stories that together weave a tapestry of revolution and political turmoil. Le Guin tells the tale of two worlds where decades of slavery and class distinction are about to come to an end. She begins at the end with the story of a woman who survived the perilous times and now must face what comes after. Then in turn come tales of a naive envoy, an aloof observer forced to choose sides, and a young slave who wins freedom, only to confront the bonds of her own mind.

Contents:
Betrayals (1994)
Forgiveness Day (1994)
A Man of the People (1995)
A Woman's Liberation (1995)

A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Hainish novels—including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its colony planet Yeowe, and how their societies are shaped by the legacies of slavery and revolution.

When the enslaved people on the colony Yeowe (called "assets") overthrow the slave-holding class (called "owners"), the owners on neighboring Werel launch a war to preserve the master-slave society that undergirds the economy of both planets. Told from the perspectives of people caught in the crosshairs of the struggle, the stories in this collection are linked by the character "Old Music," an Ekumen ambassador who is secretly working as an abolitionist and supporter of Yeowe's emancipation. Together they ask: What does forgiveness look like in a world riddled by racism and caste?

In "Betrayals," a disgraced revolutionary leader makes peace with his past. In the intersectional "Forgiveness Day," a female ambassador from the Ekumen struggles with the patriarchal culture of Werel, while "A Man of the People" tells the life story of a male Ekumen ambassador to Yeowe. "A Woman's Liberation" tells the story of a woman who, after escaping to freedom, must reckon with the internalized racism that still enchains her. And finally, the story "Old Music and the Slave Women" braids the collection together and counts the cost of justice.

First published in 1994 as Four Ways to Forgiveness, this is the first standalone edition that includes the fifth story, "Old Music and the Slave Women," that Le Guin wrote years after to augment this extraordinary, vital suite.
 

Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

در سیاره‌هایی که این همه سال از ما فاصله دارند، چه طور می‌شود واقعیت را از افسانه تشخیص داد؟ سیاره‌های بی‌نامی که مردمانشان آن‌ها را دنیا می‌نامند؛ سیاره‌هایی بی‌تاریخ، جایی که گذشـته چیزی جز مشتی اسطوره نیست. ارسـولا کروبر له کوبین، در این کتاب اسطوره، افسانه و حماسه را بـا ماجراجویی‌های فضایی تلفيق کرده و مسیر تازه‌ای در دل ادبیات علمی - تخیلی پدید آورده است. کتاب داستان سفر گونه‌شناسـی بـه اسم روکانون به سیاره‌ای ناشناخته را روایت می‌کند. او در این سفر با گونه‌های فضایی ساکن در این سیاره ارتباط برقرار می‌کند تا اینکه ناگهان بـا دشمنی قدرتمند مواجه می‌شود. بسیاری کتاب را با شاهکارهای تالکین مقایسه کرده‌اند و آن را اثری حماسی - فانتزی نامیده‌اند با این تفاوت که در فضای دوردست اتفاق می‌افتد

خلع‌شدگان داستانی است علمی‌تخیلی، یا دست‌کم در ظاهر چنین برمی‌آید؛ اما رویهٔ نخست آن را که کنار بزنیم، با کندوکاو شگفت‌انگیز پرسشی روبه‌رو می‌شویم که از قرن نوزدهم به بعد سرنوشت انسان را رقم زده: چگونه می‌توان جامعه‌ای آرمانی ساخت که نه از فقر و ستم در آن خبری باشد، نه از سرکوب سیاسی حکومت‌های توتالیتر.
داستان در روایتی مجذوب‌کننده به این جدال فکری در رو قرن اخیر تجسمی روایی می‌بخشد: سه مجمع کیهایی، اوراس مظهر زمین که نظام سرمایه‌داری بر آن حاکم است، توو نماد مردی که هشت قرن قبل دست به انقلاب سوسیالیستی زدند ولی به ساختار متمرکز دولت رسیدند، و آنارس نماد جامعهٔ آنارشیستی که صدوپنجاه‌سال قبل در اقدام انقلابیونی برپاشد که هم از اوراس بیزار بودند و هم از توو، و در کهکشانی دوردست سیارهٔ خود را ساختند با نوعی برابری همگانی در جنبه‌های گوناگون زندگی.
در این تعارض سرنوشت بشر درمانده از فقر و نابرابری سرمایه‌داری، سرکوب سیاسی دولت توتالیتر کمونیستی و آینده‌ای که در آن آزادی سر ستیز با برابری نداشته باشد به روایت کشیده می‌شود.

من هميشه كم‌سن‌و‌سال‌ترين فرد توی كلاس بودم، همين‌طور در خانواده، تنها فرزند خانواده. پدر و مادرم به اين دليل كه يك پخمه‌ی كوچولوی باهوش بودم من را زود فرستادند مدرسه. هميشه نسبت به سنم تيز و باهوش بودم. چه كسی می‌داند، شايد در چهل و پنج سالگی هم هنوز نسبت به سنم تيز و باهوش باشم. اين داستان يك جورهايی درباره‌ی اين موضوع است، درباره‌ی يك پخمه‌ی كوچولوی باهوش!

1972 edition published by Atheneum

O planeta Athshe era um verdadeiro paraíso, coberto por densas e colossais florestas. Seus habitantes, humanoides com pouco mais de um metro de altura e corpos cobertos por pelos verdes e sedosos, viviam em paz.

Então outros vieram. Muito mais altos e de pele lisa, eles caíram do céu e começaram a desbravar o território ao seu redor, enxergando os nativos como meros animais selvagens. Eles vieram de um mundo em ruínas e superpovoado, faminto por matérias-primas, madeira e grãos: a Terra.

Sem precedentes culturais para tirania, escravidão ou guerra, os nativos encontram-se à mercê de seus novos e brutais colonizadores.

Quando o desespero atinge níveis inimagináveis, uma revolução é inevitável. Cada golpe contra os invasores será um golpe contra sua própria humanidade. Mas os conquistadores alienígenas os ensinaram a odiar... e não há como voltar atrás.

O planeta Athshe era um verdadeiro paraíso, coberto por densas e colossais florestas. Seus habitantes, humanoides com pouco mais de um metro de altura e corpos cobertos por pelos verdes e sedosos, viviam em paz.

Então outros vieram. Muito mais altos e de pele lisa, eles caíram do céu e começaram a desbravar o território ao seu redor, enxergando os nativos como meros animais selvagens. Eles vieram de um mundo em ruínas e superpovoado, faminto por matérias-primas, madeira e grãos: a Terra.

Sem precedentes culturais para tirania, escravidão ou guerra, os nativos encontram-se à mercê de seus novos e brutais colonizadores.

Quando o desespero atinge níveis inimagináveis, uma revolução é inevitável. Cada golpe contra os invasores será um golpe contra sua própria humanidade. Mas os conquistadores alienígenas os ensinaram a odiar... e não há como voltar atrás.