A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
Contents:
- The First Contact with the Gorgonids (1991)
- Newton’s Sleep (1991)
- The Ascent of the North Face (1983)
- The Rock That Changed Things (1992)
- The Kerastion (1990)
- The Shobies’ Story (1990)
- Dancing to Ganam (1993)
- Another Story, or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
Foremost among that group of writers who have changed science fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. These award-winning stories range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Here we have starships that sail, literally, on wings of song... musical instruments to be played at funerals only... ansibles for faster-than-light communication... even orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
In a literary landscape often dominated by action and conquest, Ursula K. Le Guin carved quiet, radical paths—through forests of magic, across alien planets, and into the deep folds of human nature. Her stories didn’t shout; they asked, wondered, and listened. Through them, she reimagined what science fiction and fantasy could be—not just a reflection of our world, but a transformation of how we see it.
Born in 1929 to a family steeped in stories and scholarship—her father was an anthropologist, her mother a writer and the biographer of Ishi—Le Guin was raised among mythologies, cultural curiosity, and a profound respect for the power of narrative. These early influences are stitched into every book she wrote, from A Wizard of Earthsea to The Left Hand of Darkness.
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