The Birthday Of The World and Other Stories (GOLLANCZ S.F.) - Softcover
'Her most important book since ALWAYS COMING HOME and her most satisfactory collection since her first, the brilliant, THE WIND'S TWELVE QUARTERS. A formidable and rewarding work, a prime candidate for best SF collection of the year. An essential book.' LOCUS
Six of the eight piece are set in Le Guin's classic Hainish cycle. The title story, 'The Birthday of the World', stands alone and the final piece, 'Paradises Lost', is a new short novel original to the collection, a major addition to the generation starship subgenre of science fiction.
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Ursula Le Guin's latest title, The Birthday of the World, is her first short story collection since The Wind's Twelve Quarters (available in the Gollancz yellow jacket edition) and one of the most essential SF short story volumes published in many a while. Long-time fans of Le Guin will be delighted that several of the pieces are set in the already superbly realised worlds of her Hainish cycle, and there is a brand new novella called Paradises Lost.
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This is the SF of ideas, a lyrical, organic collection that explores visions of worlds where women outnumber men, where there exist societies without order and lands where sex is not determined at birth, but people slip between genders at a whim and are neither male nor female in between. While the word controversial doesn't really do it justice, the stories and the ideas Le Guin presents are certainly challenging to say the least, and she has some interesting ideas on the evolution of society and our own place in it. All in all a daring and bold collection, breathtaking and beautiful, that confirms why Le Guin is one of the genre's most celebrated writers. --Jon Snow
"Strong work from a master storyteller; highly recommended."--Library Journal
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0575074795
- ISBN 13 9780575074798
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback: 8½" x 5¼". Condition: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Digital Vision & GettyImages / Will Crocker (illustrator). 2003 Edition. © 2002: A collection of 8 short stories by Ursula K Le Guin:- Contents: Coming Of Age In Karhide / The Matter Of Seggri / Unchosen Love / Mountain Ways / Solitude / Old Music And The Slave Women / The Birthday Of The World / Paradises Lost:- Synopsis: For more than four decades, Ursula K Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity and moral vision, creating a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters. Here, in 'The Birthday Of The World', are eight brilliant short works, including the original novella 'Paradises Lost', which probe the essence of humanity. Six of the tales are set in Le Guin's world of the Ekumen - 'my pseudo-coherent universe with holes in the elbows' as Le Guin describes it, which was made famous in the multi-award-winning classic novel 'The Left Hand Of Darkness'. Step into worlds powered by Le Guin's extraordinary imagination, and discover complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex, loyalty and survival, religion, history and slavery. Discover one of the most remarkable talents writing today:- Review(s): "A master of the craft" - Neil Gaiman:- (original cost £9.99). Seller Inventory # 21.002.00001
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