Worlds Of Exile And Illusion

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765397669

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Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

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.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 0441732941

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Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473205864

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City Of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

'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.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Ace Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008439583

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Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

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.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429983549

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The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547545622

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The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation. Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to advance even faster into the future, the Akans recently outlawed the past, the old calligraphy, certain words, all ancient beliefs and ways; every citizen must now be a producer-consumer. Their state, not unlike the China of the Cultural Revolution, is one of secular terrorism. Traveling from city to small town, from loudspeakers to bleating cattle, Sutty discovers the remnants of a banned religion, a hidden culture. As she moves deeper into the countryside and the desolate mountains, she learns more about the Telling—the old faith of the Akans—and more about herself. With her intricate creation of an alien world, Ursula K. Le Guin compels us to reflect on our own recent history.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473205833

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Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

From the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels. Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World. Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile. In City of Illusions a stranger wandering in the forest people's woods is found and his health restored; now the fate of two worlds rests in this stranger's hands . . . The three novels contained in this volume are the books that launched Ursula K. Le Guin's glittering career, and are set in the same universe as her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473205840

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Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

'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.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668014967

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The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

Author : Eric Frank Russell
Publisher : Pollinger in Print
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781905665457

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Wasp by Eric Frank Russell Pdf

The war had been going on for nearly a year and the Sirian Empire had a huge advantage in personnel and equipment. Earth needed an edge. Which was where James Mowry came in. If a small insect buzzing around in a car could so distract the driver as to cause that vehicle to crash, think what havoc one properly trained operative could wreak on an unuspecting enemy. Intensively trained, his appearance surgically altered, James Mowry is landed on Jaimec, the ninety-fourth planet of the Sirian Empire. His mission is simple: sap morale, cause mayhem, tie up resources, wage a one-man war on a planet of eighty million. In short, be a wasp. First published in 1957, WASP is generally regarded as Eric Frank Russell's best novel, a witty and exciting account of a covert war in the heart of enemy territory.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571246151

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The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster Pdf

The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . . Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. 'A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Auster's elegant, finely calibrated The Book of Illusions is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship.' TheNew York Times

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062471031

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The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

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.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062470874

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Semley's Necklace by Ursula K. Le Guin Pdf

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.

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307472496

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The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Pdf

Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war. But she cannot deny her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna—or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy—as she is caught up in the ever-manipulating hands of fate.

Author : Avram Davidson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575127791

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The Kar-Chee Reign by Avram Davidson Pdf

Here there be dragons... Earth was old, her riches gone. 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 the old planet with an evil beyond anything that had gone before. With them they brought their servants, beasts so cruel and horrible that men could recall their like only from ancestral nightmares, and named them "dragons"...