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Ursula K. Le Guin's Books
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The Lathe Of HeavenA classic science-fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the world.Read More
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The Farthest ShoreBook Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite...Read More
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The Tombs of AtuanTHE TOMBS OF ATUANBook Two of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleNow a SCI FI Original Miniseries! When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the...Read More
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The Farthest ShoreDarkness Threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord --...Read More
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The Tombs of AtuanWHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away -- home, family, possessions,...Read More
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Guardian.co.uk, November 19, 2009
...and became ever weirder and more challenging. The Left Hand of Darkness perfectly encapsulates the feminist arguments of Ursula Le Guin's masterpiece. Just a tad further to the right on the political spectrum, Robert A Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh...
Guardian.co.uk, November 5, 2009
...ending which rather spoilt the whole thing for me this time. I would add Diana Wynne Jones and Ursula Le Guin to your list of authors whose books stand the test of being read as an adult. You need feel no shame in reading children's fiction to recapture...
Lexington Herald Leader, November 1, 2009
...it "the best bookstore in the English-speaking world." And writers of the caliber of Calvin Trillin and Ursula Le Guin give readings here nearly every night of the year. A recommendation for an evening in the Pearl District: Take a pedicab along the...
Finding Dulcinea, October 21, 2009
...Novelist, poet and translator Ursula Le Guin is best known for creating worlds of fantasy and of the far future, but that is only part of an acclaimed body of work that incorporates Eastern philosophy...
Globe and Mail, October 16, 2009
...aren't SF, the definitions she proposes to keep her work out of the ghetto, are increasingly strained. Ursula Le Guin, one of the true grand dames of the speculative fiction field, was too genteel to turn this into another squabble in her review of the...
Guardian Unlimited, September 25, 2009
...of the five greatest science fiction writers alive today (together with ? probably ? Brian Aldiss, Samuel Delany, Ursula Le Guin and Gene Wolfe) meant that my reaction was compounded of one part vainglorious ego-puff, one part genuine pride and three...
Cleveland Live, September 15, 2009
...and helps pry open our habitual ways of ordering the universe. Sandel plucks insights from the fiction of Ursula Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut, and from a 13-year-old's decision to disqualify himself at a national spelling bee. Then, with gusto and...
Cleveland Live, September 13, 2009
...open our habitual ways of ordering the universe. Sandel plucks insights from the short stories and novels of Ursula Le Guin and Kurt Vonnegut, and from a 13-year-old's decision to disqualify himself at a national spelling bee. Then, with gusto and...
London Review of Books, September 3, 2009
...And is this book not the expression of an ideological doctrine? In a post-feminist age, whose great writers (Ursula Le Guin, Toni Morrison, Christa Wolf) are not women writers but just writers, Atwood does not easily fit some category labelled feminist:...
WXEL, August 29, 2009
...Maryanne Wolfe considers the science of reading and worries about the state of reading in our culture. Ursula Le Guin believes books will always endure. Geraldine Brooks created a fictional history for a real book, the Sarajevo Haggadah. Alberto Manguel...
Guardian Unlimited, August 21, 2009
...to know their true names (a magic I especially like, ever since Ged first named his shadow in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books) and her heart's desire is to call the 'pennant-winged, moon-coloured' bird Liralen. Icy and emotionless, her world is disrupted...
Time, August 12, 2009
...young wizard, which at the time seemed like an incredibly fresh and original premise, only slightly borrowed from Ursula Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea. I wrote a couple of scenes and then stuck the files in a back corner of my hard drive. Years passed. Of...
Guardian Unlimited, August 10, 2009
...covers, ghettoising of books by people of colour, and low expectations for these books are industry-wide. In 2004, Ursula Le Guin asked why 'even when [my characters] aren't white in the text, they are white on the cover ... I have fought many cover...
New Zealand Herald, July 27, 2009
...for complex storytelling, but still forcing a degree of compression. No pointless verbosity or meandering subplots. Authors include Ursula Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, and Michael Swanwick; Le Guin's 'Forgiveness Day' and...
SFX, July 15, 2009
...Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 27. Dune by Frank Herbert 28. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin 29. A Case of Conscience by James Blish 30. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 31. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon 32. Frankenstein by Mary...
Independent Weekly, July 7, 2009
...do her work as much justice as the radio play, she said. Perhaps she was recalling how little Ursula le Guin liked the anime Howlâ??s Moving Castle. But Melting Stones wasnâ??t so much adapted for radio as begun as the script then released in...
Examiner.com, June 16, 2009
...a girl and his owl' by Stacey O'brien 'Swordbird' by Nancy Yi Fan The 'Catbird' series by Ursula Le Guin 'School for Cats' by Esther Averill 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame 'Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh' by Robert O'Brien 'Rabbit Hill' by...
Observer, June 13, 2009
...Novelist Tobias Hill is full of admiration for Ursula Le Guin's bold, postmodern take on the world of classical myth In a famous 1973 lecture, 'Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?', Ursula Le Guin addressed an issue which...
Flint Journal, May 31, 2009
...that I aspire to emulate has won this award -- not everyone, but just about everyone,'' Shawl said. ''Ursula Le Guin won it, for instance.'' ''Filter House,'' Shawl's first short-story collection -- chosen one of the ''Best Books of 2008'' by Publishers...
The Age, May 29, 2009
...polar expeditions. Ice also covers surreal regions and planets in such novels as Anna Kavan's Ice and Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and a trek across ice becomes an odyssey or test of courage. Is there a classic winter story? Possible...
Scotland on Sunday Online, May 23, 2009
...Review: PEGGY HUGHES IN Virgil's epic Aeneid, Lavinia is a silent, blushing virgin, daughter of King Latinus and Queen Amata, 'almost nothing' in the poem, 'an unkept promise' merely. A political pawn who defies her mother's wishes, when the Gods command...
Information Week, May 18, 2009
...in working with us,' he said. Nonetheless, as The New York Times reported earlier this month, writers like Ursula Le Guin still come across unauthorized copies of their work on Scribd and elsewhere. And speaking of The New York Times, Friedman observed...
Canadian Dimension, May 16, 2009
...taken to digitizing copies of our favourite novels and making them accessible online for free. Science Fiction giant Ursula Le Guin was enraged when she found free copies of her work online. But with constantly improving E-Reader technology like the new...
USA Weekend Magazine, May 15, 2009
...comics, itâ??s the â??holy trinityâ? of Gaiman, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, sci-fi and fantasy writers such as Ursula Le Guin and Mervyn Peake, and modern authors China Mieville and Ted Chiang. For Gross, his list dates back to what he...
Register-Guard, May 12, 2009
...Business: Home: Story Ursula Le Guin was perusing the Web site Scribd last month when she came across digital copies of books that seemed quite familiar to her. No wonder. She wrote them, including...
Africa Leader, May 10, 2009
..."She was the big thing for almost 20 years," said Donna White, author of "Dancing With Dragons: Ursula Le Guin and the Critics." "The 1970s and 1980s were her big decades; she was revered by scholars. But now people have moved on." Her status is further...
The Times, April 24, 2009
...fat, rich novel from A.S. Byatt ... and one from Hilary Mantel ... and one from Colm Tobn ... and Ursula Le Guin ... and ... well, it seemed too good to be true. And yet it is true, and we have marshalled our finest writers here to offer their opinions...
New Jersey Online, April 1, 2009
...p.m. (908) 766-0118 or www.bernardsvillelibrary.org. BERNARDSVILLE - Book Group discussing 'The Lathe of Heaven' by Ursula Le Guin. Bernardsville Public Library, 1 Anderson Hill Road, 3:30 p.m. Registration recommended: www.bernardsvillelibrary.org or...
New York Times, February 7, 2009
...may be perishable, but creativity and creation are not. In one of her extraordinary essays, The Space Crone, Ursula Le Guin wrote that old women would make the best space explorers. Free from the daily tasks of rearing helpless children, free to see and...
Bookslut, February 3, 2009
...to bridge the world I used to read fantasy fiction for years, until eighteen or so. I loved Ursula Le Guin, the Earthsea Trilogy. The Sword of Shannara and all those, I fucking loved those books. At some point, my parents ganged up on me and said it's...
stuff.co.nz, January 21, 2009
...of an Earth long given up to history could be incredibly detailed. 10) A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin Before a certain young wizard went to Hogwarts to learn all there was to know about making feathers float and stopping the world's most evil...
Suburban Journals, December 30, 2008
...novels and short stories studied will be those by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton, Ursula Le Guin, H. P. Lovecraft, George Orwell, Carl Sagan and Jules Verne - plus Gene Roddenberry, who created the 'Star Trek' TV series, she...
Black Gate, October 8, 2009
...“When I was a kid I got no respect. When my parents got divorced there was a custody fight over me… and no one showed up.” –Rodney Dangerfield Somewhere, even as I type, there is someone wearing a tuxedo who is looking at a piece of sf/f with...
Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All, September 28, 2009
...God by Zora Neale Hurston The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker...
It's All About Books, September 8, 2009
...I never grew out of wanting to be her. Who wants to play? The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. My teenage passion. I loved hobbits (and geeky guys who loved hobbits), but Ged's a serious babe. Still my favorite fantasy trilogy. My Name is Asher Lev...
Charlotte's Library, August 31, 2009
...I'm not sure I want to read the book (sounds like it might upset me) , but the review is thought-provoking as all get out!...
Charlotte's Library, August 28, 2009
...rather fun to bump into Howl. And Penthe reminded me of a book I truly love-- "Voices by Ursula le Guin, where reading and books are both beloved, and also help to save the day. Memer loves to read in her grandfather's hidden library." I knew there...
Earth and other unlikely worlds, August 26, 2009
...there's a fragment (I wimped out on writing an entire hymn; kudos to Atwood for following in Ursula Le Guin's footsteps and going the whole hog) of an enviro-religon hymn in Gardens of the Sun - set to Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy'. No melting people, though...
The F-Word Blog, August 25, 2009
...I’d also particularly recommend would be Octavia Butler (see here for a mini-review of Lilith’s Brood), Ursula Le Guin, Vandana Singh (see here for a review of one of her collections) - I liked that Ali Smith (one of her collections is reviewed here...
Charlotte's Library, August 24, 2009
...and risk loosing my innocent pleasure in a good story. Which in turn leads me to thinking about Ursula Le Guin's short story, " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ." A story, incidentally, that blew my mind. *this is the cover that was on my copy...
Charlotte's Library, August 24, 2009
...and risk loosing my innocent pleasure in a good story. Which in turn leads me to thinking about Ursula Le Guin's short story, " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas ." A story, incidentally, that blew my mind. *this is the cover that was on my copy...
Torque Control, August 22, 2009
...by Christopher Brookmyre in The Guardian Elizabeth Hand’s latest F&SF review column covers Cheek by Jowl by Ursula Le Guin, The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller, and The Magicians by Lev Grossman Michael Moorcock reviews The Manual of Detection by...
Charlotte's Library, August 14, 2009
...Patrick Rothfuss (the one book I have in common with the original list). I haven't put any Ursula Le Guin on the list because the books of hers that I most recommend I would call Science Fiction. And finally, I'd also like to defend the fourth-grade...
The F-Word Blog, August 12, 2009
...covers, ghettoising of books by people of colour, and low expectations for these books are industry-wide. In 2004, Ursula Le Guin asked why “even when [my characters] aren’t white in the text, they are white on the cover … I have fought many cover...
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen, August 10, 2009
...earlier. The book was " "Incredible Good Fortune, New Poems " by Ursula K. Le Guin. I love Ursula Le Guin , she is a writer who is up there in the Holy Septinity of Writers in my book of reading love along with Madeline L'Engle, JRR Tolkein, Charles...
Ben Peek, August 5, 2009
...mindblowing.” Charles Stross was fourth to leave a comment, and he said, “Bonkers. Nothing by James Tiptree Jr., Ursula le Guin, C. J. Cherryh, C. L. Moore, or (insert list here)? I note an interesting mixture of classics with rather newer, more...
dream home, beach moments, sundry thoughts, June 12, 2009
...certainly provides food for spiritual thought as you explore your relationship with your God. I’ve just started Ursula Le Guin ’s The Wave in the Mind.I read the first chapter online at the NYT years ago and bought it to read. I am just now getting...
Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen, June 8, 2009
...Chunky " from Madagascar 2, one line from "The Act" by William Carlos Williams and one line from Ursula Le Guin's "The Old Lady". Tonight I will point you to William's "The Act" as I blogged about it when Vanessa, Edel, and I were turning it into...
Science Fiction Fantasy Chronicles: forums, June 2, 2009
...There was a book I read years ago by Ursula Le Guin and I just can't remember what it is called so perhaps someone here can help me. It's about a man who still lives with his mother...
dreaming out loud, May 31, 2009
...Owe Me by Penny Jordan ♥ The Clouds Above by Jordan Crane ♥ A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin ♥ The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin ♥ BtVS: The Long Way Home by Joss Whedon ♥ Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by...
Biology in Science Fiction, May 11, 2009
...There was an interesting profile of Ursula Le Guin in today's LA Times . Le Guin's parents were both prominent anthropologists, and their work has in turn influenced her own. Le Guin's early years help...
Torque Control, May 9, 2009
...of Journey Planet , guest-edited by Pete Young, is all about Nineteen Eighty-Four and George Orwell [pdf]. (Tangentially, see Ursula Le Guin on calling Utopia a utopia ) Imogen Russell Williams, at the Guardian books blog, on Diana Wynne Jones Gwyneth...
Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All, May 4, 2009
...not all. And not sci-fi like this. The Lathe Of Heaven is supposed to be a classic, and Ursula Le Guin is a prolific and multi-award winning author, but I just could not get into this story. The moral, or theme, is tired. I know this came out in...
dreaming out loud, April 30, 2009
...Caspian by C.S. Lewis ♥ The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis ♥ Tales of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin ♥ The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin ♥ The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton ♥ The Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton ♥...
Podiobooker, April 15, 2009
...JC Hutchins I have moved into the big leagues. The names I will be joining in Ace include Ursula Le Guin, Tanya Huff, and Tad Williams to name but a few. These are stellar names, and it is a pleasure to be in the same stable. This totally justifies...
Mark Lord's Writing Blog, April 9, 2009
...more formulaic? I think some of my favourites wouldn't fit in that well: Gene Wolfe Mervyn Peake Ursula Le Guin Jack Vance Robert E Howard Leo Tolstoy Ernest Hemingway Michael Moorcock Iain M Banks Frank Herbert Alexandre Dumas Out of all of these Dumas...
inuit panda scarlet carwash, March 23, 2009
...now non-kosher***, so eat them at your peril. That evening I finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness , Ursula Le Guin's novel about weirdo androgynous aliens and their funny planet. I will talk more of this subsequently, but the many Le Guin fans...
Words Matter, March 22, 2009
...of the works we read were intriguing and continue to linger with me today, some 30 years later. Ursula Le Guin , Dostoevsky, Herman Hesse, and Kafka fit the latter category. For the 15 or so students that made up World Lit class at Lisbon High School,...
inuit panda scarlet carwash, March 19, 2009
...So that's it for The Hammer of God . The book we are reading for next month is Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness , a classic of brainy SF. Le Guin has largely passed me by up to now, though I know this book by reputation...
The Mslexia Blog, March 2, 2009
...Anthony Horowitz ’s high-octane Power of Five blockbuster series and has worked with a slew of talent, from Ursula Le Guin to David Almond . The idea of submitting my story to the exacting eye of such an accomplished editor was exciting but more than...
Torque Control, March 1, 2009
...spiral-bound book, which is a proof of Toby Litt’s Journey Into Space ; I’m extra-intrigued now, because Ursula Le Guin didn’t like it , but Martin and Paul did. Tagged: Books, Fantasy, Reading, SF...
things mean a lot, February 6, 2009
...American Gods by Neil Gaiman (because it's the longest). But this would mean having to live without Ursula Le Guin or Daniel Wallace or Peter Beagle or Douglas Coupland or John Green....noooooo! 2. What one mythological creature do you find yourself...
Fluttering Butterflies, January 29, 2009
...Thursday, January 29, 2009 Library Loot 3 1. Tales of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin 2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 3. Saffy's Angel by Hilary McKay Just three books from the library this week. I...
things mean a lot, January 27, 2009
...no conventions at all, oh no. This is actually pretty similar to that passage from an essay by Ursula Le Guin I posted just the other day, I know, which goes to show that great minds think alike. You’re all probably tired of me borrowing someone...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...@ The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing The Chronicles of...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...King The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing The Chronicles...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, January 24, 2009
...The Shining (1977) Marghanita Laski - The Victorian Chase-longue (1953) Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas (1864) Ursula Le Guin - The Earthsea series (1968-1990) Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (1961) Doris Lessing - Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) David...
Uncertain Principles, January 24, 2009
...King The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing The Chronicles...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, January 24, 2009
...King The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing The Chronicles...
Hall Books, January 23, 2009
...you can browse literally hundreds of stories. I personally recommend The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula Le Guin or Stephen Crane's A Dark Brown Dog or my personal favorite The Artist of the Beautiful by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I love all three and...
Bookspotcentral, January 13, 2009
...inhabit is as strange and unfamiliar to me as the planet Gethen was when I visited it in Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness . I don’t identify with Roy’s characters, except on a human level, but they were indefatigably interesting and...
Cabinet of Wonders, January 9, 2009
...I was just reading Ursula Le Guin's marvelous The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination this morning in an effort at delaying the approaching end-writing...
Athenum, January 9, 2009
...The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison River Of Gods by Ian McDonald The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin (and the rest of the Earthsea series too) …because they were worth reading: American Gods by Neil Gaiman Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake Xenocide by Orson...
.., January 1, 2009
...C. Clarke Let's Get Down to Brass Tacks--letters from: Edward Wellen James Gunn Stephen Utley Ruth Berman Ursula Le Guin Seth McEvoy Jack Wodham F.M. Busby Lee Overstreet Bob Ottum Michael Bishop andy offutt John Brunner Cover photos of three vets,...
things mean a lot, December 29, 2008
...at lenght about each book this post will never end, I'll leave it at that.) Voices by Ursula Le Guin (The Annals of the Western Shore books are absolutely brilliant, and this is probably my favourite in the series.) Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar...
Novelish, December 15, 2008
...really don’t realize that. And you can’t write unless you read. Source: Writing World interview , 2000. Ursula Le Guin has a section on her website for writing advice. She wrote a book about writing, Steering the Craft, in 1998. Back to top Peter S....
Ballardian, December 12, 2008
...have to do). Lislegaard’s Left-Hand of Darkness. Photo courtesy Murray Guy. Ann recently staged a visualisation of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, along with ‘Crystal World’, at Murray Guy in New York. This ended today, sadly, but...
Charlotte's Library, December 2, 2008
...and thought about more thoughtfully than would otherwise be the case (a classic example being the books of Ursula Le Guin). Through irrelevance, relevance. By way of interesting contrast, there’s a post at the Guardian book blog today that celebrates...
