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It contains Le Guin's most extensive description of Hain's environment and culture in her work. [ 1 ] The history of the Hainish people goes back three million years, and they placed colonies on many planets, including Earth and Werel.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ ˈ k r oʊ b ər l ə ˈ ɡ w ɪ n / KROH-bər lə GWIN; [1] née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series.
This category is for images of book covers for works by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Media in category "Ursula K. Le Guin book cover images" The following 34 files are in this category, out of 34 total.
This country, "Orsinia", appears in Le Guin's earliest writings, [7] [8] and was invented by le Guin when she was a young adult learning her craft as a writer. [9] The names Orsinia and Ursula are both derived from Latin ursus "bear" (ursula = diminutive of ursa "female bear"; ursinus = "bear-like"). Le Guin once said that since Orsinia was her ...
Dancing at the Edge of the World is a 1989 nonfiction collection by Ursula K. Le Guin. The works are divided into two categories: talks and essays , and book and movie reviews . Within the categories, the works are organized chronologically, and are further marked by what Le Guin calls the Guide Ursuline —a system of symbols denoting the main ...
"The Day Before the Revolution" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. First published in the science fiction magazine Galaxy in August 1974, it was anthologized in Le Guin's 1975 collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters and in several subsequent collections.
Theo Downes-Le Guin, son of the late author Ursula K. Le Guin, remembers well the second-floor room where his mother worked on some of her most famous novels. Downes-Le Guin, who also serves as ...
"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 such as The Wind's Twelve Quarters. [1] This story and " The Word of Unbinding " convey Le Guin's initial concepts for the Earthsea realm, including its places and physical manifestation.