The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
A jewel of a storyProfuse and original . . . Graceful and accomplishedHaunting lucidity . . . clarity of thought . . . depth and richness . . . Intellectual muscularity and honesty . . . entrancing lyricism wedded to an open-eyed realismDelicate yet daring, narrated with immense gravitas . . . Ursula Le Guin's masterpiece - Science Fiction: The 100 Best NovelsHas all the depth, impact and scope of Dune . . . A unique and compelling love-story that rates with the very best of Sturgeon
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