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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.
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.
"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.
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (/ ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s / [1]) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child ...
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 Beginning Place is a short novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, written in 1980. It was subsequently published under the title Threshold in 1986. The story's genre is a mixture of realism and fantasy literature. The novel's epigraph "What river is this through which the Ganges flows?" is quoted from Jorge Luis Borges. [1]
"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.