A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Ursula K. Le Guin

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1994

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Contents:

  • The First Contact with the Gorgonids (1991)
  • Newton’s Sleep (1991)
  • The Ascent of the North Face (1983)
  • The Rock That Changed Things (1992)
  • The Kerastion (1990)
  • The Shobies’ Story (1990)
  • Dancing to Ganam (1993)
  • Another Story, or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)

Foremost among that group of writers who have changed science fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. These award-winning stories range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Here we have starships that sail, literally, on wings of song... musical instruments to be played at funerals only... ansibles for faster-than-light communication... even orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

In a literary landscape often dominated by action and conquest, Ursula K. Le Guin carved quiet, radical paths—through forests of magic, across alien planets, and into the deep folds of human nature. Her stories didn’t shout; they asked, wondered, and listened. Through them, she reimagined what science fiction and…

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