Years before, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan -- she, an isolated young priestess, he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him not by choice.A lifetime ago, they helped each other at a time of darkness and danger. Now they must join forces again, to help another -- the physically and emotionally scarred child whose own destiny remains to be revealed.With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

在线阅读本书 Mrs. Jane Tabby cannot explain why all four of her kittens were born with wings. But when life on the city streets becomes too dangerous, it is clear that her dream for her children might some day come true. They can fly away from the city slums of their birth. And one day, they do. But not even their mother could have foreseen the hazards of country living.

The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, and the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award-winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea 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. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.</p>

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost. Includes: -Vaster Than Empires and More Slow -Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight -Hernes -The Matter of Seggri -Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea -Forgiveness Day -A Man of the People -A Woman's Liberation -Old Music and the Slave Women -The Finder -On the High Marsh -Dragonfly -Paradises Lost This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. <em>The Wind's Twelve Quarters</em> collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.</p> Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.</p>

For fourteen years, Weed, as she is called, the daughter of Lord Garnet, has brought offerings to the standing stone. Alone in a shallow valley, she implores the stone not to forget her. To remember who he is and the life he led. To wait until the day he will be avenged. Now the day has finally arrived. After fourteen long years of waiting, he will have his revenge and she will have her father back. Or will she? Master storyteller Ursula LeGuin takes readers back to Earthsea with this hauntingly beautiful tale of betrayal and revenge.

In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes."The Lathe of Heaven" is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.

擁有天賦的力量，並不代表自由唾手可得。 唯有經過撕心裂骨的覺醒， 才能學會為自己奮戰，並為自己的選擇負責。 葛維過目不忘，偶爾還能在「視象」中回憶起「未來」的片斷，他活在他所在之處，也活在他不在之處；但這種內在力量無從解釋，也無法掌控。因此，他在姊姊明智的建議之下藏起天賦，平凡度日。 葛維從有記憶以來就是奴隸，一個快樂、知足的奴隸，不曾想過奴隸之外的生活，困在粉飾太平的牢籠中而不自覺，直到城市遭逢戰亂，他向來相信的一切、他的整個世界，一夕之間破碎崩毀。 悲慟至極的葛維關閉了心門，選擇忘卻他已失落的，因為他並不曾擁有過。他踏上危險旅程，邁向空無一物的前方，探尋一個他並不明瞭的目標。從表面太平的城市到看似自由的森林，他的身體自由了，卻找不到心靈的歸屬；從森林再到孤絕封閉的沼地，天賦的力量與過去卻仍如鬼魅般糾纏不去。 葛維的旅程究竟會將他帶往何方？是追尋自由？是追尋他的原鄉族人？還是針對他奇特的內在力量，追尋其真正用途？

話語文字的刀刃，有時比刀劍武力更為鋒利。 阿茲人用武力輕易毀滅安甦爾城，然而，話語文字的力量何以令他們恐懼？ 安甦爾城，人稱「慧麗安甦爾」，城中聳立孕育知識的大學、保存文化與智慧的圖書館、壯麗宏偉的高塔建築，以及千百座大理石建造的大小神廟。安甦爾深受神諭眷顧。 然而，現在的安甦爾，是一座到處斷垣殘壁，充斥飢餓、恐懼與絕望的破敗之城。入侵的阿茲人認為文字是邪惡的魔法，藏書萬千的安甦爾城更是罪無可赦。 玫茉系出高華氏系，解讀神諭、為安甦爾城指點迷津本該是高華家的職責，但神諭沉寂已久。十七年來，玫茉學習閱讀祕室中最後的藏書，文字滋潤她的心；但家園被毀、親人受盡折磨，讓她心中仇恨不斷滋長；她只知道，阿茲人是永遠的敵人，她要殺光阿茲人。 知名的詩人歐睿久聞安甦爾文風鼎盛，他受阿茲人之邀，與妻子馴獸人桂蕊一同到來。阿茲人雖視文字為惡魔，卻熱愛詩人講述的故事，意料不到的是，歐睿講述的故事不僅娛樂了阿茲人，也擾動了潛伏於安甦爾城底下的暗流。 安甦爾人失去信仰與文字，在被壓迫的沉默中度過十七年。 延續已久的仇恨與戰爭，該如何結束？ 沉默了二百年的神諭，何時會再重新發聲？ 當你被迫面對深惡痛絕的敵人，竟發現他們並不全然殘忍可恨，你該視而不見地對他們採取報復手段，或是說服自己忘卻仇恨、寬恕敵人？ 勒瑰恩《沉默之聲》如她以往的作品恬淡、優雅，但也為族群衝突頻傳的世代提供了一種解釋，唯有盡可能地了解、認識，才有和平共處的可能。

天賦，是恩賜的禮物，但如果這個禮物足以毀滅世界，你要怎麼與它共存？ 這是一片貧瘠孤立的高地；居民如這片土地，嚴酷、兇猛。為了擴張領土，爭取生存空間，鄰近氏系爭戰不休。唯有「天賦」制衡彼此，維持氏系間脆弱的和平。歐姆世家能縱火燃燒；考林世家能搬移重物；摩各世家有?內視力?，你想什麼，他們看得一清二楚；提柏世系的男人可以操控人心，按他的意志行事；波瑞世系的女人能提取心智，使人變成一只空殼。 在這裡，聰敏緘默的少女桂蕊繼承召喚動物的天賦，但無法狠心遵照家族傳統，喚動物來讓獵人捕獵；敏感纖細的少年歐睿繼承消解的天賦，僅一個注視、手勢，就使生命灰飛湮滅，但這股強大力量不受控制。不顧父親的嚴厲反對，歐睿蒙起雙眼，讓狗兒黑煤兒與心愛的桂蕊成為他的眼睛。他以為自己能抵抗命運，但在這塊苛刻之土，有無法放下的原始責任，與難以化解的仇恨糾葛。 身為族長之子，歐睿必須負起延續純正天賦血統的職責，他與異族之女通婚，無法自由與心愛的女孩相守；還必須戰勝心魔，解開蒙住的雙眼，為族人貢獻他的天賦。在他以為自己的命運已經註定，未來卻在這時急轉彎，氏族之爭越演越烈，歐睿的世界出現巨大裂痕…… 當人生開始失控，陪伴身邊的親人與愛人是最後扶持；當無力改變環境，找出共處之道是唯一出路。願用天賦照亮世界的黑暗角落，雖困難重重，但終有一絲光明。

在遥远的星球上，住着一群绿毛、大眼睛的原住民。 他们喜爱做清明梦，依靠森林，过着与世无争的生活。 一天，一群贪婪的殖民者来到这里，破坏了原有的一切。 绝望的原住民，开始报复。 然而，对入侵者的每一次报复，也是对自己人性的一次摧残。 他们一步一步，离昔日的自我越来越远。 杀戮一旦开始，没有人能再回到原点。 宇宙深处有一面镜子，可以看见真正的自己。

The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years, and ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter, a season that lasts for 15 years, the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches and call the farborns. But hilfs and farborns have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals and eerie preying snow ghouls. Will they join forces or be annihilated? Planet of Exile is the second in the Hainish Cycle series. (preceeded by Rocannon's World and followed by City of Illusions .)

◎本書榮獲 〈賽亟黎星球情事〉獲小詹姆斯．提普翠獎 〈荒山之道〉獲軌跡獎、小詹姆斯．提普翠獎 〈孤絕至上〉獲星雲獎 〈世界誕生之日〉獲軌跡獎 假如我們有異星同胞，我們會照見怎樣不同的人生？ 「地海」系列、《黑暗的左手》重量級作家 八個思索生命開始與終結、個體與群體、冒險與流浪、愛與恨、性與欲的人生詩篇 打破我們對自身人性想像的侷限，真正進入無限可能的宇宙 在瀚星世界中，人類移民太空已有很長的歷史，許多殖民星球已發展出與祖星瀚星或地球大為不同的社會文化制度，甚至連生理結構也演化出異變。星際聯盟「伊庫盟」致力探索散步宇宙各處的人類移民社會，在學者與使者的努力下，忠實記錄人類文明的種種可能面貌： 在格森星的雙性同體人類社會中，孩子轉大人，首次面對自身生理的巨大變化與勃發的陌生情慾－－那會是什麼樣的成年儀式？ 賽亟黎星社會的性別制度是另一種相當倒反的關係，女男生活嚴格分隔，女性擔起整個社會的運作大任，男性除了各式體能競賽與表演之外，僅有提供性愛與生育的功能。當外星文化終於介入，這層嚴格的分際與規範是否受到衝擊？ 如果一個社會徹底崇尚孤絕、獨立，致力避免以任何形式介入個人生命，會是什麼景況？一位來自瀚星的人類學家母親，帶著一對子女試圖融入這樣的社會，以期進行深入的調查研究，卻沒有想到這個獨特的孤絕文化對她的兒女各自造成什麼影響。這是一種文明退化閉鎖現象，還是性靈發展至極端的一種可能？ 一艘移民太空船已航行宇宙長達五個世代。船上的移民無時無刻不為未來可能的登陸做準備，一切設施、制度、生活方式、教育方向都導向這個目標；然而，不同的聲音慢慢形成。新生代完全在人工環境中成長、學習、生活，「母星」只是種種知識的綜合體或模擬影像。這群人如何選擇、創造自己的未來？心目中的新故鄉、新樂園究竟何在？ 八個異星紀事，帶我們航向宇宙最深處，也讓我們在離家最遠的地方返回最真實、最多樣的自我。 美國科奇幻代表作家娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩，充分運用科幻類型的無限想像特性，將人類社會型態發展的諸多可能，充分地演繹表達在這八個雋永的故事之中。勒瑰恩最擅長的乃以擬人類學田野觀察筆記與記錄側寫，將想像虛構的社會文化風貌，及其底下的現實人性問題，深刻地呈現出來，且毫無斧鑿痕跡，即便說教也說得趣味與餘韻十足。可以說，勒瑰恩從《黑暗的左手》與《地海巫師》開始至今所想要藉由文學去挖掘、思索、探討的諸多複雜議題，本書中的八個故事不僅是文字風格還是形式結構上，都堪稱典範。 「勒瑰恩的作品總是帶領我們超越對性別認知的尋常侷限，這部小說集也不例外。」 －－《紐約客》雜誌 「她是少數幾位能成功從科幻類型作家一躍成為重要作家的人。」 －－華盛頓郵報 「她筆下的人物性格豐富令人難忘，她的文筆更是以優雅不失強勁而著稱。」 －－時代雜誌 「勒瑰恩是位極為睿智且機智的作家，高明的說書人，幽默與力道堪比馬克吐溫。」 －－波士頓環球報 「再一次，勒瑰恩力道十足的作品證明：科幻小說不必然是逃避現實的東西，性別研究不一定都是尖澀刺耳的聲音，娛樂也不盡然是無腦的內容。」 －－洋蔥雜誌 「一道純粹的星光。」 －－科克斯評論 「勒瑰恩在本書所完成的，只能以「美」來形容。她探索了種種關係：我們可能對彼此感到陌生，甚至有如外星異客，但仍相愛。讀著讀著我甚至不知不覺流下淚來，我只知道我深深受到感動。」 －－牙買加裔加拿大科幻小說家、《午夜盜賊》作者／娜洛．霍普金森 「這是最偉大的科幻小說大師所寫的八篇睿智美妙的故事所集結而成的小說集，優美，深刻，令人著迷。」 －－美國科幻小說名家／羅伯．席維柏格

The wizard Alder comes from Roke to the island of Gont in search of the Archmage, Lord Sparrowhawk, once known as Ged. The man who was once the most powerful wizard in the Islands now lives with his wife Tenar and their adopted daughter Tehanu. Alder needs help: his beloved wife died and in his dreams she calls him to the land of the dead - and now the dead are haunting him, begging for release. He can no longer sleep, and the Wizards of Earthsea are worried. But there is more at stake than the unquiet rest of one minor wizard: for the dragons of Earthsea have arisen, to reclaim the lands that were once theirs. Only Tehanu, herself daughter of a dragon, can talk to them; it may be that Alder's dreams hold the key to the salvation of Earthsea and all the peoples who live there.