Ursula K. LeGuin
City of Illusions

Scattered over the earth, small isolated settlements of humanity lived in a state of semi-barbarity; the knowledge and skills, the glory that had been Terra's in the golden age of the League of Worlds lost to ruthless conquerors.

Each time a group of Earthmen began to rise fom the ashes, the Shing, the ravagers of Terra, the Liars, would crush them out.

Only one man could stand against them, and that man had alien amber eyes.  Before he dared oppose the enemy he had to prove his humanity, and to himself that he was not a tool of the Shing....

The magic has gone out of the world.  All over Earthsea the mages had forgotten their spells, the springs of wizardry were running dry.  Ged, dragonlord and Archmage, set out with Arren, a highborn young prince, to seek the source of the darkness.  This is the tale of their harrowing journey beyond the shores of death to heal a wounded land.

In the decade since its publication, Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Earthsea Trilogy has become one of the most beloved fantasies of our time.  The windswept world of Earthsea is one of the greatest creations in all fantasy literature, comparable to C.S. Lewis's Narnia or Tolkien's Middle Earth.  The magnificent saga begun in A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan concludes with The Farthest Shore.

From amazon.com:

As featured on Slate, for the first time in eBook edition comes a science fiction classic that is at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.

Winner of the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, and one of the most acclaimed writers in science fiction, Ursula Le Guin’s classic novel The Lathe of Heaven imagines a world in which one man’s dreams can change all of our realities.

In a world beset by climate instability and overpopulation, George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only George has the clear memory of how it was before. He seeks counseling from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately understands how powerful a weapon George wields. Soon, George is a pawn in Haber’s dangerous game, where the fate of humanity grows more imperiled with every waking hour.

As relevant to our current world as it was when it won the Locus Award, Ursula Le Guin’s novel is a true classic, at once eerie and prescient, wildly entertaining and ferociously intelligent.

Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand
of Darkness

Not since DUNE has a science fiction novel generated as much enthusiasm and excitement as THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS.  Discover for yourself this thought-provoking tale of an alien planet where all the people are of one sex, and the lone earthman is forced into a subtle planetary intrigue where he is the pawn and his future is the prize.

"Anybody who can write a novel like this has my respect and admiration." - DAMON KNIGHT

"As profuse and original an invention as THE LORD OF THE RINGS." - MICHAEL MORCOCK

"What got to me was the quality of the story-telling.  She's taken the mythology, psychology - the entire creative surround - and woven it into a jewel of a story." - FRANK HERBERT

"Le Guin is not only one of the purest stylists writing in English, but te most transcendently truthful of writers."
- The Nation

"A superb novel-length addition to the Earthsea universe, one that, once again, turns that entire series on his head.  Alder, the man who unwittingly initiates the transformation of Earthsea, is a humble sorcerer who specializes in fixing broken pots and repairing fence lines, but when his beloved wife, Lily, dies, he is inconsolable.  He begins to dream of the land of the dead and sees both Lily and other shades reaching out to him across the low stone wall that separates them from the land of the living.  In her new novel, [Le Guin] reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself."
- Publishers Weekly

Steeped in Earthsea lore and featuring familiar characters as well as dramatic action, the first full-length novel since Tehanu will leave its readers wanting yet another."  - Booklist

"One of the few writers I know who excels at both political fiction and epic fantasy.  She's brilliant at both."
- Salon.com

A FEATURED ALTERNATE OF SCIENCE
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PLANET OF EXILE

The Earth colony has been stranded on distant Eltanin for six hundred Terrestrial years and the lonely and dwindling human settlement was feeling the strain.  Every winter - as season which lasted for fifteen of our years - the Earthmen had neighbors.  These were the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settled down when they burrowed in for the long cruel cold spell.

Yet the hilfs feared the Earthmen, whom they thought of as the farborns, and their fear kept the lost colony lonely.  Nevertheless both hilfs and farborns had common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarian Gaals and the eerie preying snowshouls.  And in the last terrible winter, the only hope of hilf and farborn was to join forces or be annihilated.

PLANET OF EXILE is by the author of THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS and displays the same planet-creating brilliance that won its author the highest awards of science fiction writing.

Ursula K. LeGuin
Rocannon's World

Rocannon was a Terran scientist on Fomalhaut II one moment, the sole survivor of his crew fleeing the vicious attack of the invaders from Faraday the next.

Marooned among the humanoids of this alien planet - the cave-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia and the warrior Liuar - he had to find some way to fight back. 

Rallying the primitive natives around him, Rocannon set out to prove that technology was no match for courage and love of freedom.

"Earthsea's magic serves as a metaphor for the writer's own sorcery... Memorable." - The New York Times Book Review

"In this stellar collection...Ursula K. Le Guin makes a triumphant return to the magic-drenched world of Earthsea."*  Featuring the award-winning author's new Earthsea novella, two original stories and two classic tales, as well as new maps and a special essay on Earthsea's history, languages, literature and magic, "the publication of this collection is a major event in fantasy literature."
(* Publishers Weekly starred review)

"A writer of depth who recognizes that not all fantasy venues are created equal...Le Guin's combination of opaque simplicity and transparent complexity, the quotidian and the miraculous, as well as her sharp and subtle characterizations, make for stories that stand shoulder to shoulder with ancient archetypal fairy tales and fables." - The Washington Post Book World

"In the canon of great adult fantasy literature, right next to Tolkien...If you've had enough of Harry Potter-style kid-wizardry, Le Guin offers a powerful tonic.  These tales are intense, moving, engaging and best of all, character-driven: Le Guin knows people, wizards or not."
- The Boulder Daily Camera

"Tales from Earthsea...has poetry and true magic.  Furthermore, it has a great writer's love of an imaginary land that once existed only in her mind and now exists as a treasure in the real world for all lovers of fantasy, today and tomorrow and forever."
- The Orlando Sentinel

Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice.

A lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again, to help another--the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed.

With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere.  Complex, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time.  She lives in Prtland, Oregon.

Ursula K/ Le Guin has received countless awards for her work, including:
THE NEBULA AWARD
THE HUGO AWARD
THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

OTHER BOOKS IN THE EARTHSEA CYCLE:m
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Farthest Shore
The Tombs of Atuan
Tales from Earthsea
The Other Wind

Arha, the maiden priestess...
Ged, the young wizard...

They took away everything.  Home, family, possessions.  They gave her a name.  Arha, the Eaten One.  They dedicated her life as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Power of the Earth.  And set her down at the Place of the Tombs in the desert ot Atuan.  Then suddenly, a thief came to the dark, endless labyrinth of her kingdom, seeking the greatest treasure of the Tombs, the broken Ring of Erreth-Akbe.  A young wizard, Ged...

The Earthsea Trilogy

This lovely trio of novels, a recognized classic of high fantasy, has been compared with Tolkien's Lord of the RIngs and C.S. Lewis's Narnia series.  The present volume, The Tombs of Atuan, is the sequel to A Wizard of Earthsea, and is followed by The Farthest Shore.

EARTHSEA

Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle has become one of the best-loved fantasies of our time.  The windswept world of Earthsea is one of the greatest creations in all of fantasy literature, frequently comparied to J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth or C.S. Lewis's Narnia.  The magnificent saga begins with A Wizard of Earthsea, continues in The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, and concludes with Tehanu - each book a treasure of wisdom, wonder, and literary wizardry.

A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA

Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, but once he was called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.