Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780441732944
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Rocannon's World
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780441732944
Category : Life on other planets
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Rocannon's World
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473205840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.
The Kar-Chee Reign
Author: Avram DavidsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 144054588X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare. Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of th old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so creul and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them “Dragons . . .”
Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Orb Books
ISBN: 0765397668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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.
City Of Illusions
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473205867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD 'A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness' Martin Amis Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.
Semley's Necklace
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062470876
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
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. "Semley's Necklace" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.
The Language of the Night
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Ultramarine Publishing
ISBN: 9780399504822
Category : Fantastic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Planet of Exile
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Ace Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Threatened by an army of nomadic tribesmen, the Tevar colony and their enemies the farborns must form an alliance to survive the war and the fifteen-year-long winter of their isolated planet.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062471031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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 lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.
Pafko at the Wall
Author: Don DeLilloPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105448
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason is razzing Toots Shor in Leo Durocher's box seats; J. Edgar Hoover, basking in Sinatra's celebrity, is about to be told that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb; and Russ Hodges, raw-throated and excitable, announces the game -- the Giants and the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds in New York. DeLillo's transcendent account of one of the iconic events of the twentieth century is a masterpiece of American sportswriting.