The Beginning Place
Published in the UK as Threshold.
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee 1981.
Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place" – a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place.
Now, seven years later, she has
grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or
Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous
shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join
forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are
they on their way to a new beginning... or a fateful end?
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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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