Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Series
Hainish volume 1-3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The author's first three novels--City of Illusions, Rocannon's World, and Planet of Exile--are included in an omnibus edition, all set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness, as her characters battle forces in society that seek to tear them apart.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1982.
Language
English
Description
North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness...South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile...West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death...and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin that carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.
Author
Series
Catwings volume 2
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
c1989.
Language
English
Description
Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building to be demolished.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1975
Language
English
Description
Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man ten times over...Utopia, in a city where almost everyone is perfectly happy... Ursula Le Guin, author of The Earthsea Trilogy, has a special way of blending stirring adventure with fantasy that has made comparison with such masters as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien inevitable. Now, in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, seventeen of her favorite stories reaffirm...
6) Tom Mouse
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
Tom Mouse hides on the train he has boarded for travel and adventure, but an old woman finds and befriends him.
7) Cat dreams
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Presents a feline dreamland where it rains mice, all the dogs have run away, and a big bowl of kibbles and cream is waiting.
8) Fish soup
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
When the Thinking Man of Moha and the Writing Woman of Maho talk about having a child, two children appear, shaped by the friends' expectations of what a child should be.
Author
Series
Catwings volume 4
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money.
11) Malafrena
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Fantasy - Malafrena is not a real place. Itale never dreamed of love, nor Piera of him. Estenskar did not live, only his poems. Only the dreams of themselves are real, only their youth, only the wind called Freedom that swept through their lives like a storm unforgettable. A novel set in the imaginary nation of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Catwings volume 3
Publisher
Orchard
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
After being rescued by a flying cat, Alexander the cat decides to make good on his promise to do wonderful things.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
This collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid-nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. Diffusing the traditional boundaries of realism, magical realism, and surrealism, Le Guin finds the detail that reveals the strange in everyday life, or the unexpected depths of an ordinary person. Written with wit, zest, and a passionate sense of human frailty and toughness, Unlocking...
Author
Publisher
Eighth Mountain Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Le Guin has turned a successful workshop into a self-guided voyage of discovery for a writer working alone, a writing group, or a class. Steering the Craft is concerned with the basic elements of narrative: how a story is told, what moves it and what clogs it. This book does not plod through plot, character, beginning-middle-and-end. Nor does it discuss writing as self-expression, as therapy, or as spiritual adventure. Each topic includes examples...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy novels, though she began her career as a poet. "I still kind of twitch and growl when I'm reduced to being the science fiction writer. I'm a novelist and increasingly a poet. And sometimes I wish they'd call me that," Le Guin said in a 2015 interview with NPR. In this clarifying and sublime collection--written shortly before her death...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, 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." --...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian...