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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ursula K Le Guin |
ISBN: | 9781857988826 1857988825 |
OCLC Number: | 255256657 |
Notes: | 1st publ. in GB in 1999 by Millennium |
Awards: | Short-listed for John W Campbell Award 1975 (UK) |
Description: | 318 Seiten Karten 20 cm |
Series Title: | SF masterworks. |
Responsibility: | Ursula LeGuin |
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The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin -- Roddy Doyle * THE TIMES * An extraordinary work ... [Le Guin] created a working society in exquisite detail ... a fully realised hypothetical culture [as well as] living breathing characters who are inevitable products of that culture -- Baird Searles A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again * THE TIMES * A deeply imagined work of art * Encyclopedia of Science Fiction * Le Guin's book ... is so persuasive that it ought to put a stop to the writing of prescriptive Utopias for at least 10 years * NEW YORK TIMES * [Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be * Empire * Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power * OBSERVER * Read more...

