LE GUIN (1929-2018) was the celebrated and beloved author of numerous groundbreaking works, such as The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Dispossessed. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex." - Newsweek "Idiosyncratic and convincing, Le Guin's characters have a long afterlife." - Publishers Weekly and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over.
and nearly always provocative." - The Washington Post "Her worlds are haunting psychological visions molded with firm artistry." - The Library Journal "Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace." - Time "Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory." -Jonathan Lethem "If you want excess and risk and intelligence, try Le Guin." - The San Francisco Chronicle "She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." - The Boston Globe "Queen of the realm of fantasy."- Washington Post "Eloquent, elegant. Jemisin "Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself."-Zadie Smith "Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. A literary icon." -Stephen King "Le Guin is one of the writers who taught me that beauty and fearlessness go hand in hand." -N.K. With a new introduction by Amal El-Mohtar, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. The novels collected in this Tor Essentials edition are the first three ever published by Le Guin, a frequent winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time. Set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish Series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space. Le Guin includes: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. THREE REMARKABLE JOURNEYS INTO THE STARS.
These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness".
Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. About the Book "Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains three novels in the Hainish Series from Ursula K.
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