Bøger af Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

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

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.

An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards.

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

Frederic Raphael, Rick Moody, Lance Olsen, Lidia Yuknavitch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Luisa Valenzuela, Mahmoud Darwish, Les Murray, Triin Paja, Kurt Eisenlohr & co. - dazzle!

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.

Hugh og Irene kæmper med hver deres problemer. Hugh er underlagt sin mors kontrol, og Irene kan ikke komme ud af det med sin stedfar. Hver for sig skaber de en fantasiverden, som de kan flygte ind i, og langsomt flyder de to verdener mere og mere sammen. Der hviler en forbandelse over beboerne i deres fantasilandsby, og der er kun ét menneske, der kan ophæve den – nemlig Hugh. Sammen drager han og Irene ud for at løse problemet, men det viser sig snart, at problemerne vil komme til at række langt ind i virkelighedens verden ...Den amerikanske forfatter Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) har skrevet et væld af romaner, noveller og børnebøger, som ofte indeholder elementer af science fiction og fantasy. Der er dog en særlig dybde i Ursula K. le Guins værker, der ofte viser mødet mellem mennesket og Det Andet eller Det Fremmede. Hendes bøger beskæftiger sig med emner som seksualitet, religion, politik, miljø og etnografi.

In this second novel in the Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, Ursula K. Le Guin brings readers a haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic.Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons.But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory?the only place where she feels truly safe.Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer's life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors?Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget.?Le Guin's crystalline prose and her ability to dramatise political and spiritual issues of our time are unequalled.? ?Amanda Craig, London Times?As always, Le Guin's language is as airy and sensuous as her concerns are weighty and abstract, every sentence as precise as a spade cut.? ?Elizabeth Ward, The Washington Post?Barbarians-versus-brainiacs may be well-trod turf, but Le Guin sure-footedly makes it new. She creates a protagonist with obvious appeal to her intended audience: a geeky girl with bad hair but a quick intelligence, who nurses a seething contempt for the illiterate thugs who run everything." ?Anne Boles Levy, Los Angeles TimesThe Annals of the Western Shore Trilogy includes:GiftsVoicesPowers

An exciting re-launch of the classic Earthsea Cycle, by fantasy literature legend Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of a Newbery Honor, the National Book Award, Pushcart Prize, and six Nebula Awards.

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.