- Fiction, American Science fiction, Women, Life on other planets in fiction
At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs. In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Harper Voyager, Atalante (L'), HarperPrism
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- tur, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780575063013
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“«En el planeta O no ha habido guerra desde hace cinco milenios —leyó—, y en Gueden no ha habido guerra nunca.»”
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". Source: [Wikiped
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