Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known...
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches...
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The Dispossessed (redirect from Ursula K. Le Guin/The Dispossessed)
a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number...
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The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, established in 2022, is an annual, English-language literary award presented in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin. The $25,000 prize...
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The Tombs of Atuan (redirect from Ursula K. Le Guin/The Tombs of Atuan)
Tombs of Atuan /ˈætuːɑːn/ is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy, and...
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Earthsea (category Series by Ursula K. Le Guin)
is a series of high fantasy books written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan, (1970)...
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Hainish Cycle (redirect from Ursula K. Le Guin/Ekumen)
Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is set in a future history in which civilizations of human beings...
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (category Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin)
is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator...
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Last Book of Earthsea, is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Atheneum in February 1990. It is the fourth novel set...
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Always Coming Home (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Always Coming Home is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It is in parts narrative, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's...
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Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le Guin and first published by the small press Parnassus in 1968. It is regarded...
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The Left Hand of Darkness (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
novel by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 1969, it became immensely popular, and established Le Guin's status as a major author of science...
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Ansible (section Coinage by Ursula Le Guin)
such a device, the word "ansible" first appeared in a 1966 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. Since that time, the term has been broadly used in the works of numerous...
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City of Illusions (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
City of Illusions is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It is set on Earth in the distant future, and is part of her Hainish...
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Rocannon's World (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Rocannon's World is a science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, her literary debut. It was published in 1966 as an Ace Double, along...
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Tales from Earthsea (category Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin)
is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It serves as an accompaniment to the...
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The Lathe of Heaven (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first serialized in the American science fiction magazine Amazing...
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Earthsea is a fictional world created by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Introduced in her short story "The Word of Unbinding", published in 1964,...
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Vaster than Empires and More Slow (category Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Empires and More Slow" is a science fiction story by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the collection New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert...
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was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for imaginative fiction. Harvey watched a continuous live stream...
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters (category Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin)
writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. A retrospective of Le Guin's...
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Orsinian Tales (category Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Tales is a collection of eleven short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, most of them set in the imaginary East European country of Orsinia...
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The Farthest Shore is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published by Atheneum in 1972. It is the third book in the series...
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Planet of Exile (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Planet of Exile is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, part of her Hainish Cycle. It was first published as an Ace Double...
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"The Rule of Names" is a short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the April 1964 issue of Fantastic and reprinted in collections...
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The Word for World Is Forest (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
for World Is Forest is a science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the United States in 1972 as a part of the anthology...
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characters in the stories about the fantasy world of Earthsea, created by Ursula K. Le Guin. In Earthsea, each individual among the Hardic peoples has several...
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because she loves kingfishers (and as an homage to Ursula K. LeGuin, who once joked that the initials "U.K." could stand for "Ulysses Kingfisher"). Vernon...
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Lavinia (novel) (category Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin)
a Locus Award-winning novel by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Published in 2008, it was Le Guin's last novel. It is written in a first-person, self-conscious...
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by Ursula K. Le Guin. The work received both Hugo and Nebula awards and is regarded, along with The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), as one of Le Guin’s masterpieces...
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