Best Selling Books by URSULA K. LE GUIN

A collection of articles, reviews, papers and speeches, arranged chronologically, on a range of inspirational and thought-provoking topics.

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 magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream'' Neil Gaiman Ursula K. Le Guin''s Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere, alongside the works of such beloved authors as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs'' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together, he and Tenar escape from the darkness that has become her domain.

The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,” Le Guin’s first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language. 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.

Our world ends here . . . and another begins. In one of her most deeply felt works, America''s acclaimed author of speculative fiction turns inward, to the dreams and sorrows of a small town set, quite literally, on the farthest edge of modern America.

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.

All four brilliant stories in one volume. Age 9+ 704 pages

A collection of twenty-four essays concerned with writing in general, the field of fantasy and science fiction, and with the author''s own writing.

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas adalah sebuah karya fiksi filosofis pendek tahun 1973. Dengan deskripsi yang samar dan jelas, penulis menggambarkan festival musim panas di kota Utopis Omelas, yang kemakmurannya bergantung pada kesengsaraan abadi seorang anak. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" dinominasikan untuk Penghargaan Locus untuk Fiksi Pendek Terbaik pada tahun 1974 dan memenangkan Penghargaan Hugo untuk Cerita Pendek Terbaik pada tahun 1974. Penulis mencerminkan bahwa "Omelas terdengar dalam kata-kata seperti sebuah kota dalam dongeng, dahulu kala dan jauh, pada suatu waktu. Mungkin akan lebih baik jika Anda membayangkannya sebagai tawaran mewah Anda sendiri, dengan asumsi itu akan naik ke kesempatan, karena tentu saja aku tidak cocok untuk kalian semua." Segala sesuatu tentang Omelas sangat menyenangkan sehingga narator memutuskan pembaca belum benar-benar yakin akan keberadaannya dan begitu menguraikan elemen terakhir kota: satu-satunya kekejaman. Ketenangan dan kemegahan kota yang konstan mengharuskan seorang anak yang malang disimpan dalam kekotoran, kegelapan dan kesengsaraan abadi. Sinopsis Aku duduk dan memulai sebuah cerita. Tapi aku tidak tahu. Aku hanya ingin melakukan apa yang harus aku lakukan. Di benakku hanya ada kata ''Omelas''. Kata itu berasal dari papan penunjuk jalan: Salem (Oregon) dieja dari belakang. Pernahkah kau mengeja papan penunjuk jalan dari belakang? Itnehreb. Nalep-nalep. Kana-kana. Ocsicnarf Nas Salem sama dengan schelomo sama dengan salaam sama dengan kedamaian. Melas. O melas. Omelas. Homme helas. "Dari mana kau mendapat ide-idemu, Nyonya Le Guin?" “Dari melupakan Dostoyevsky dan membaca papan penunjuk jalan secara terbalik, secara natural. Dari mana lagi?” Informasi lain : Deskripsi fisik : 13 x 19 cm, 328 halaman Weight : 0.25 kg ISBN : 9786026129536 Pengarang : Ursula K. Le Guin Penerbitan : Jakarta; Mata Aksara, 2017 Bahasa : Indonesia Subjek : Fiksi Sejarah Bentuk Karya : Fiksi Status : Aktif

Two classic tales of near-future politics and skulduggery are twice the bargain in this newest Tor Double. Superior reading by award-winning authors.