Bøger af Ursula K. Le Guin

The long-awaited sequel to the Earthsea Quartet'A masterpiece of chilling narration' GUARDIAN

Ursula K Le Guin's essential writings on feminism and gender collected for the first time.

Den yderste kyst er tredje bind i Ursula K. Le Guins episke fantasy-serie om Troldmanden Gæt og Jordhavet.Fra landet Enlad kommer den unge pris Arren til Roke, hvor troldmanden Gæt nu er blevet ærkekogler. Arren bringer dårlige nyheder: Troldmændene i Enlad og på andre øer har glemt deres besværgelser og formularer. Sammen med Arren drager Gæt ud for at finde oprindelsen til den onde kraft, som skaber uligevægt i verden, og som er i færd med at udtørre den livsvigtige trolddomskunsts kilder. Det bliver en vanskelig og farefuld rejse, som fører Arren og Gæt til verdens yderste kyst, til de dødes land. Her skal styrkeprøven stå mellem Gæt og den, som sidder med magten over liv og død. Udfaldet er afgørende for hele Jordhavets skæbne.Den yderste kyst er afslutningen på Ursula K. Le Guins første trilogi i sagaen om Jordhavet.Serien om Jordhavet er en moderne klassiker inden for fantasy-genren. Blandt mange andre har den inspireret J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter-serie og George Martins Game of Thrones-saga. Desuden har Le Guins serie modtaget mange litterære priser og regnes ofte blandt alletiders bedste fantasy-værker.

Atuans grave er andet bind i Ursula K. Le Guins episke fantasy-serie om Troldmanden Gæt og Jordhavet.”Når ypperstepræstinden dør, gennemsøger de hele Atuan for at finde en pige, som blev født den nat, præstinden døde. Og de finder altid en: Fordi hun er den genfødte præstinde. Når barnet er fem, bringer de det her til stedet. Og når det er seks, bliver det skænket til De Navnløse, som fortærer dets sjæl. Og så tilhører det dem – og har tilhørt dem lige siden tidernes morgen.”Denne skæbne tilfalder pigen Tenar. Hun rives bort fra sin familie og indsættes som Den enbårne Præstinde på øen Atuan. Hun får et nyt navn: Arha, Den Fortærede. I de mørke og labyrintiske gange under gravene på Atuan hviler Jordens gamle kræfter, De Navnløse, og Arha begynder at udforske de steder, som kun hun selv og de udvalgte præstinder må besøge. Men en dag er der lys i den underjordiske labyrint. En tyv er kommet til Atuan for at røve de mørke magters rigeste skat, Erreth-Akbes ring – en troldmand ved navn Gæt. Egentlig burde Arha straffe Gæt, men troldmanden vækker tvivlen i hende. Kan hun undslippe mørkets kræfter og finde sin egen vej?Serien om Jordhavet er en moderne klassiker inden for fantasy-genren. Blandt mange andre har den inspireret J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter-serie og George Martins Game of Thrones-saga. Desuden har Le Guins serie modtaget mange litterære priser og regnes ofte blandt alletiders bedste fantasy-værker.

Kort essay om science fiction-genrens poetik, faldgruber og nødvendighed.

Større end riger og langsommere handler om en hyperempat, hvis krop og sind gennemstrømmes af andres følelser. Hyperempaten er en del af en intergalatisk besætning på et rumskib, som er sendt af sted for at lede efter liv på andre planeter. De ankommer til en smuk og ensom jadegrøn planet, der i flere millioner år kun har kendt sin egen ro, enhed og uendelighed, og fortællingen drejer sig om mødet mellem den fremmede besætning og planetens symbiose, hvor både jord og mennesker kan mærke hinanden.

A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.

For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Collection.In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergent societies-the result of both evolution and genetic engineering-allow her to speculate on what is intrinsic in human nature. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, with new introductions by the author.Volume one gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon's World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed-as well as four short stories.Volume two presents Le Guin's final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness, published here in full for the first time. The endpapers feature Le Guin's own hand-drawn map of Gethen, the planet that is the setting for The Left Hand of Darkness, and a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

A beautiful hardback edition of the classic The Farthest Shore, the third book of Earthsea. The perfect addition to any library. With illustrations by Charles Vess.

From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughtsalways adroit, often acerbicon aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation

The first volume of collected short stories by multiple award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin, selected by the author herself. 'Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be' EMPIRE

'One of the most deeply influential of all 20th century fantasy texts' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY'She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters' GUARDIAN'I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin' Roddy DoyleA collection of five magical tales of Earthsea, the fantastical realm created by a master storyteller that has held readers enthralled for more than three decades. "e;The Finder"e;, a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, when he Archipelago was dark and troubled, reveals how the famous school on Roke was started. In "e;The Bones of the Earth"e; the wizards who first taught Ged demonstrate how humility, if great enough, can rein in an earthquake. Sometimes wizards an pursue alternative careers - and "e;Darkrose and Diamond"e; is also a delightful story of young courtship. Return to the time when Ged was Archmage of Earthsea in "e;On the High Marsh"e;, a story about the love of power and the power of love. And "e;Dragonfly"e;, showing how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom, provides a bridge - a dragon bridge - between Tehanu and The Other Wind.

Through his dreams, George Orr can make alternate realities real'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

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.

Ursula K. Le Guin's essential guide to the writer's craft, now publishing in the UK for the first time. A guide for writing groups as well as solo writers, with a brand-new introduction from a leading voice in international science fiction and fantasy.

Four novellas from the acclaimed author'Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS

Eight SF stories from Ursula Le Guin'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER

Raphael, Moody, Olsen, Yuknavitch, Le Guin, Valenzuela, Darwish, Les Murray, Triin Paja, Kurt Eisenlohr & co. dazzle.

"'The poet's measures serve anarchic joy. / The story-teller tells one story: freedom.' Throughout a celebrated career that spanned genres, Ursula K. Le Guin was first and last a poet. This sixth volume in the definitive Library of America Le Guin edition presents for the first time an authoritative gathering of her verse -- from the earliest collection, Wild Angels, through her final publication, So Far So Good, which she delivered to her editor a week before her death. The major themes of Le Guin's work find their most refined expression here: exploration as a metaphor for both human bravery and creativity, the mystery and fragility of nature, the Tao Te Ching, marriage, aging, and womanhood. Features include a new introduction by Harold Bloom written in 2019, sixty-eight uncollected poems, a selection of Le Guin's prose writing about poetry, and helpful notes." -- Back cover.

THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS.Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin includes: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of IllusionsThese three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin's remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish Series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space. The novels collected in this Tor Essentials edition are the first three ever published by Le Guin, a frequent winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time. With a new introduction by Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.

From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Eye of the Heron.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 form 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.

?One of [Le Guin's] most radical novels. . . . Always Coming Home is a study in what a complete and utter rejection of capitalism and patriarchy might look like?for society and for the art of storytelling."?The MillionsReissued for a new generation of readers, Ursula K. Le Guin's magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast, hailed as ?masterly? (Newsweek), ?hypnotic? (People) and ?[her] most consistently lyric and luminous book? (New York Times).Midway through her career, Ursula K. Le Guin embarked on one of her most detailed, impressive literary projects, a novel that took more than five years to complete. Blending story and fable, poetry, artwork, and song, Always Coming Home is this legendary writer's fictional ethnography of the Kesh, a people of the far future living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. Having survived ecological catastrophe brought on by relentless industrialization, the Kesh are a peaceful people who reject governance and the constriction of genders, limit population growth to prevent overcrowding and preserve resources, and maintain a healthy community in which everyone works to contribute to its well-being. This richly imagined story unfolds through a series of narrated ?translations? that illuminate individual lives, including a woman named Stone Telling, who travels beyond the Valley and comes to reside with another tribe, the patriarchal Condor people. With sharp poignancy, Le Guin explores the complexities of the Kesh's unified society and presents to us?in exquisite detail?their lives, histories, adventures, customs, language, and art. In addition to poems and folk tales, Le Guin created verse dramas, records of oral performances, recipes, and even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. The novel is illustrated throughout with drawings by artist Margaret Chodos and includes a musical component?original recordings of Kesh songs that Le Guin collaborated on with composer Todd Barton?bringing this utterly original and compelling world to life.

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.

Ursula K. Le Guins subversive varulvefortælling, hvor 'den afskyelige' ikke er en ulv, men et menneske. En varmenneskefortælling om sammenhold og sorg i en ulveflok i de velsignede mørke og dybe skove.

Ursula K. Le Guins berømte fortælling om en gruppe mennesker, der hjemsøges af Jordens liv i det ydre rum.

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable BookIn these ?vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches? (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide?reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver's Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning?and mystery?of being human.Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she's found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes.Changing planes?not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence?enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As ?Sita Dulip's Method? spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances 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. With ?the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist? (USA Today), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.