Ursula Le Guin

Ursula k. Le Guin's beautifully realised space epic of two young friends finding their lives steer a new, and unexpected course As the spaceship Discovery makes its slow way towards its destination - New Earth - Hsing and Luis come of age together. Born in the middle of this multigenerational journey, they have never known life beyond the ship and never expect to. But just as their lives seem to be unfolding as decreed, a revelation about Discovery's true course throws everything they know into question. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

Povídka z oblasti Zeměmoří Irie, kde žije dívka Dračinka, která touží naučit se kouzlům a studovat magii na škole, kam je vstup ženám zapovězen. V době, kdy přišla na svět dívka jménem Dračinka, patřilo irijské panství k nejkrásnějším krajům v Zeměmoří, ale zároveň bylo místem nekonečných svárů a rozepří.

Závěrečný díl vyprávění o Zeměmoří propojují s předcházejícími knihami známé postavy – arcimág Ged, jeho družka Tenar a její dcera Tenanu. Ty pomohou radami novému králi Lebannenovi v boji proti drakům, bez zásluh však není ani mladý čaroděj Habr. Šestý díl vyprávění o Zeměmoří uzavírá jeden z nejvýznamnějších cyklů světové fantasy.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, was raised on Anarres, a barren moon with no government, army, laws, or police that has long been isolated from other worlds because of its rigid dedication to radical equality. Shevek's work promises a breakthrough that could alter the course of human civilisation, but to realise it, he must journey to Urras: a planet dazzling in its beauty and advancement yet fractured by hierarchy. Though initially welcomed by this unfamiliar civilisation, Shevek soon finds himself caught between competing visions of freedom, a bridge - and a threat - to both. In the conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs, even as he ignites the fires of change. From the inimitable Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed is a true classic of the twentieth century, a moving story about what it means to return home and a must-read science fiction masterpiece. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM RODDY DOYLE

Ursula Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In her last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shone. The collected best of Le Guin's blog, No Time to Spare, presents perfectly crystallised dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world and her wonder at it. She brings her signature wit and wisdom to topics as diverse as ageing, imaginative literature, capitalism, her beloved rescue cat, classism, cultural perceptions of fantasy and the courage and resolution involved in eating an egg from the shell. This is essential reading for Le Guin's myriad admirers, revealing new sides to a trailblazing and beloved author who influenced literary greats across genres and generations.

A lone human emissary journeys from Earth to the planet of Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to secure Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilisation, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and the culture he encounters. Forced into a perilous partnership with an outcast on a journey across the planet's bitter, whirling snow, he learns how survival, trust and love take shape in a world nothing like his own. A visionary classic, The Left Hand of Darkness reshaped fiction with its radical exploration of gender, human connection and power. WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM DAVID MITCHELL

Searoad is a sandy track that runs between the town of Klatsand and the rugged Oregon coast. Across this stretch, locals with roots in the town overlap with visitors staying in its run-down motels: a man questions his wife's desire to be a poet; a summering librarian indulges in an affair; a waitress recalls the shooting of her teenage daughter by her own husband. And always, women walk on the long, long beach. And as the narrative shifts from the horizontal present to the vertical past, a four-generation chain of mothers and daughters reaches back to Klatsand's beginnings - and forward to its future. In Searoad, trailblazing feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin paints a vivid and powerfully evocative portrait of a small community built over the course of a century.

Audiokniha Tehanu, kterou napsala Ursula K. Le Guinová. Filozoficky laděná fantasy ze série knih o Zeměmoří. Schovanka zemřelého mága Ogiona Tenar se vrací na ostrov Gont se zmrzačeným děvčátkem Therou a znovu se tu sbližuje se svým přítelem z mládí arcimágem Gedem.

Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom - poets, visionaries - realists of a larger reality . . . Words Are My Matter is a selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best writing on literature, articulating with precision and passion her belief in the social and political value of storytelling - especially in hard times. In doing so, and with her characteristic spirit, Le Guin offers both a glimmer of hope and a set of operating instructions for a life lived with meaning.

Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats 'The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world.' In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This irresistable book about cats gathers poems, mediations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that her captured her imagination. Here are: The Art of Bunditsu, Le Guin's hard-to-find 'tabbist' meditation on the arranging of cats 26 cat poems, many illustrated by Le Guin herself The Historic First Issue! of Le Guin's one-of-a-kind cat comic book, Supermouse Comix! Cat Correspondence: letters between Le Guin's cat and those of her daughter detailing the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying Cat Tai Chi, as depicted in a charming series of drawings. A first-of-its-kind collection from a science fiction legend, this delightful purr-purri is a gift for cat lovers and Le Guin fans!

Legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin was lauded by millions for her ground-breaking science fiction novels, but she began as a poet, and wrote across genres for her entire career. In this clarifying and sublime collection – completed shortly before her death in 2018 – Le Guin is unflinching in the face of mortality, and full of wonder for the mysteries beyond. Redolent of the lush natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, with rich sounds playfully echoing myth and nursery rhyme, Le Guin bookends a long, daring, and prolific career.

Genly Ai, vyslanec galaktického svazu Ekumen, se snaží navázat kontakt s obyvateli zimní planety Gethen, kde se lidé stávají jen krátce, jednou za měsíc, buď mužem, nebo ženou. Genly působí nejprve v království Karhide, později v totalitním státě Orgorejn, ale na celém Gethenu mu uvěří jediný člověk… Jedna z nejslavnějších knih v historii science fiction klade zásadní otázky o vztahu mezi sexualitou a uspořádáním společnosti, ale zároveň je i mnohovrstevnatým příběhem o tmě a světle, chladu a teple, věrnosti a zradě.

A stunning graphic novel edition of the classic fantasy adventure, with a foreword by Theo Downes-Le Guin. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin was first published in the UK in 1971 and has been considered a classic of children's fantasy ever since. It follows the story of Ged, a poor smith’s son, who discovers a magical talent and is sent away from home to a wizard school. During a duel with a fellow student, he summons a terrible shadow creature which he tries to banish, but it continues to haunt him long after he finishes his magical training. Finally he seeks advice from his old master Ogion, who tells him to confront the creature rather than flee it – that fears and shadows are to be faced, and that darkness is as much a part of us as the light. A beautiful, skilful adaptation of a classic of children’s literature for a new readership and new generation – making this remarkable book accessible to visual, reluctant readers as well as graphic novel fans.

She chose love. The price she paid was war.A stunning combination of history and mythology - ''an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel'' FINANCIAL TIMESREADERS on LAVINIA:''Utterly compelling'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Clever twist'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Super'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn''t be given, wouldn''t be taken, but chose my man and my fate''Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father''s closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia''s mother favours her own kinsman, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods'' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas'' past... If she refuses to wed her mother''s choice, Lavinia knows she will start a war...''Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine'' GUARDIAN

Annares je bezútěšný měsíc osídlený anarchickou utopickou civilizací, kde neexistuje žádná vláda a všichni, alespoň teoreticky, jsou revolucionáři. Dlouho byl izolován od ostatních světů, včetně své mateřské planety Urras – kde mezi sebou národy ještě stále válčí a ta největší chudoba kontrastuje s nemravným bohatstvím. Shevek, skvělý fyzik, hodlá obě civilizace sjednotit. Tváří v tvář velkému nepřátelství, hrozbám i bolesti z odloučení od rodiny podnikne bezprecedentní cestu do Urrasu. Bez ohledu na nebezpečí věří, že hradby nenávisti a nedůvěry mezi jeho planetou a zbytkem civilizovaného vesmíru musí být strženy. Bude hledat odpovědi, zpochybňovat nezpochybnitelné a zkoumat rozdíly ve zvycích a kulturách… a buď své národy spojí, nebo zahyne.

Pozemská lingvistka Sutty pátrá ve velehorách planety Aka po zbytcích staré kultury, zakázané a pronásledované totalitním a technologiemi posedlým Korporátním státem. Sutty postupně zjišťuje, že nesmírný labyrint tisíciletých vědomostí skutečně vskrytu přežívá, že je obrovský a nepochopitelný. Jeho jméno zní Vyprávění... Ursula Kroeber Le Guinová je světoznámou autorkou science fiction a fantasy, jejíž dílo oceňují jak příznivci žánru, tak i širší literární kritika. Román Vyprávění, který spadá do pozdního období její tvorby a který v roce 2001 získal ceny Locus a Endeavour, vychází česky poprvé.