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The Telling A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea The Wind's Twelve Quarters The Dispossessed The Lathe of Heaven

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British Pbk Original - Gollancz (2002)

The Telling
There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone’s surprise, the eighty-first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat-Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was written in the old scripts has been destroyed; modern aural literature is all written to Corporation specifications.
The Corporation expects Suttv to report back so the non-standardised folk stories and songs can be wiped out and the people `re-educated’.
But Sutty herself is in for an education she never imagined.
The Telling is a thought-provoking reflection on the twentieth century: the long awaited new novel in Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish cycle.
‘What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love and sex.’ Newsweek
‘Eloquent, eloquent... insightful, funny, sharp… and nearly always proactive.’ The Washington Post

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Paperback - Vista (1997)

A Fisherman Of The Inland Sea
'Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time' Ursula K. Le Guin
In this collection Le Guin has assembled a far-reaching catalogue of wonders, which she uses to illuminate the world in which ordinary men and women live. Astonishing in their diversity, her stories exhibit both a major writer a the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her sense of wonder still intact.
'Like Asimov, her gift is to create an entirely believable alien world. But she's a writer of far greater depth and texture' Suzie Mackenzie, Guardian
'There is no more elegant or discerning expositor than Le Guin' Kirkus
'Wonderful' Manchester Evening News

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Paperback - Gollancz (2000)

The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula Le Guin has been recognized for more than thirty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field and her popularity has extended far beyond the readership of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection of stories and it brings together almost all of her early short fiction. It includes such poised and enduring masterpieces as the Hugo-winning
'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution' and important, seminal works like 'Winter's King' and ’Vaster Than Empires and More Slow'. The range, strength and beauty of the stories is breathtaking and more than justifies Le Guin's reputation as a consummate artist.
’Her worlds have a magic sheen… She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend’ The Times
'On the strength of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, I would not hesitate to say that the short story is the appropriate medium for her, and one in which few contemporary writers ... can equal her' New Scientist 'A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness.The gems in this impressive collection have the same power to disconcert as her best novels' Martin Amis

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (1999)

The Dispossessed
The Principle of Simultaneity will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.
Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.
'Le Guin is a writer of phenomena power. She sets up enormous challenges and meets them fully; she invites, as Tolkien does, total belief' Observer 'A firmamental sincerity and the solid fuel of a first-rate narrative' Observer
'A well-told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' The Times
'Miss Le Guin writes tellingly of the different kinds of society... and of the individual's response to them' Daily Telegraph
'Embodies the most thoroughgoing utopian vision in modern sf’ Science Fiction: 100 Best Novels
'A deeply imagined work of art' The Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction

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Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)

The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr is in most respects a mild and unremarkable man, but he has an ability with which he can transform the world around him, for George’s dreams alter reality. His psychiatrist, William Haber, at first skeptical, cannot resist using George’s powers once he sees their effects – initially just to advance his own career, but then, gaining confidence, to try to change their overcrowded world into a more attractive place.
‘Gracefully developed. Extremely inventive. What science fiction is supposed to do’ Newsweek
‘A clever exercised in alternatives and ethics, and the practical problems of utopia building’ Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree
‘A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion’ New York Times

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