The Lathe Of Heaven
Title | The Lathe Of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2022-07-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1668014963 |
With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future. During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George—with some surprising help—must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself. A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.
In the Orbit of Sirens
Title | In the Orbit of Sirens PDF eBook |
Author | T. A. Bruno |
Publisher | Song of Kamaria |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2020-10-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781734647006 |
Nightmarish machines have driven humanity into the depths of space. The survivors are forced to adapt to a planet filled with monsters.
A Country of Ghosts
Title | A Country of Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Killjoy |
Publisher | AK Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2021-11-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1849354499 |
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships him to the front, he’s embedded in the Imperial Army and the reality of colonial expansion is laid bare before him. His adventures take him from villages and homesteads to the great refugee city of Hronople, built of glass, steel, and stone, all while a war rages around him. The empire fights for coal and iron, but the anarchists of Hron fight for their way of life. A Country of Ghosts is a novel of utopia besieged and a tale that challenges every premise of contemporary society.
The Just City
Title | The Just City PDF eBook |
Author | Jo Walton |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2015-01-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466800828 |
"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future—all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome—and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. Meanwhile, Apollo—stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does—has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives—the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself—to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Gifts
Title | Gifts PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0152051236 |
A darkly compelling fantasy about a world in which each person has a magical, dangerous gift.
Always Coming Home
Title | Always Coming Home PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2001-02-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780520227354 |
An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.
The Beginning Place
Title | The Beginning Place PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Tor Teen |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2005-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466824468 |
From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place. Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"—a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.