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A Wizard of Earthsea - Earthsea 1
This is the first of a trilogy of stories in the world of Earthsea which is set in a Tolkien-time of dragons, wizards, and magic which lives and works...

City of Illusions
Have you ever known you were different from the people you were around? Grew up with? You know that you are different, special in a way but you don'...

Planet of Exile
For 600 years, a colony of humans have lived on Gamma Draconis III. It's a planet that has various humanoid species and clans, where a planetary year ...

Rocannon's World
Rocannon is a 43-year-old galactic ethnologist based on the colony of New South Georgia. One day a lordly female of the Angyar race (from a distant, l...

Tehanu - Earthsea 4
This entire book takes place on Gont, the island of Ged/Sparrowhawk's birth. Bereft of most or all of his magic powers from the epic battle in book th...

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The Birthday Of The World
Ursula K. Le Guin HarperCollins, Mar 2002, 24,95, 384 pp. ISBN: 0066212537 Fans of deep science fiction that stars aliens in order to dig i...



The Dispossessed
A description of a young man's journey thorugh two linked and opposite socieities, one anarchist/communistic, the other capitalist/repressive, in a se...

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Shevek, a young man with a great gift for physics, is born on the moon, Annares. He is born among the anarchists which settled that world one-hundred-...

The Eye of the Heron
Ursula K. Le Guin Starscape, Sep 2003, 5.99, 179 pp. ISBN: 0765346125 The planet Victoria was founded as a prison colony, but the original miss...

The Farthest Shore - Earthsea 3
The great finale of the Earthsea trilogy is set in a Tolkien-time of wizards and dragons, and has a similar theme to Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in...

The Lathe of Heaven
George Orr, a perfect cipher, the ultimately average man, has effective dreams - dreams that change reality. This is a nightmare; these are real drea...

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The Left Hand of Darkness
The envoy Genly Ai has been sent to the planet Gethen to invite the inhabitants to join the Ecumen, a federation of worlds slowly reuniting after an ...

The Other Wind
This book comes after the story "Dragonfly" from "Tales from Earthsea". A young sorcerer dreams of the land of death and sees the dead trying to get f...

The Telling
LeGuin's 2000 addition to the loose Hainish cycle that began with her very first sci-fi novel in 1966 concerns Sutty, an Observer for the Ekumen feder...

The Tombs of Atuan - Earthsea 2
This is the second of a trilogy of stories in the world of Earthsea, which is set in a Tolkien-time of dragons and wizards. In the first half of this ...

The Word for World is Forest
Humans try to colonize a forest planet and enslave the native inhibitants. The Athsheans are fed up with the situation and led by one of them they reb...

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