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.
Rocannon's World
Title | Rocannon's World PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473205840 |
'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world - and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.
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.
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.
Thin Air
Title | Thin Air PDF eBook |
Author | Richard K. Morgan |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2018-10-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 110188536X |
An atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars, from the author of the award-winning science fiction novel Altered Carbon, now an exciting new series from Netflix. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Hakan Veil is an ex–corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that’s made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power amid a homegrown independence movement. But he’s had enough of the red planet, and all he wants is a ticket back home—which is just what he’s offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for being the bodyguard for an EO investigator. It’s a beyond-easy gig for a heavy hitter like Veil . . . until it isn’t. When Veil’s charge starts looking into the mysterious disappearance of a lottery winner, it stirs up a hornet’s nest of intrigue and murder. And the deeper Veil is drawn into the game, the more long-buried secrets claw their way to the Martian surface. Now it’s the expert assassin poised against powerful enemies hellbent on taking him down—by any means necessary. Praise for Thin Air “Kick-ass . . . Mixed in with the thriller-esque action and cyberpunk backdrop is a hard-boiled noir story complete with a twisting and turning plot that keeps readers on their toes.”—Los Angeles Times “Richard K. Morgan wants to destroy your Mars fantasies. . . . It’s a grim vision, but one that Morgan finds far more plausible than the cheerful visions of plucky Mars colonists common in sci-fi.”—Wired “A robotically enhanced Jack Reacher [in a] dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences.”—The Guardian “If you ever imagined that the core esthetics and themes of cyberpunk—lowlifes and high tech; corporate dominance; future noir; post-human evolution and cyborg adaptations; hardscrabble urban environments—were played out, Thin Air will set you straight, and kick your butt in the process. . . . Both kinematic and cinematic, [Thin Air is] limned by Morgan with balletic precision and smashmouth grace.”—Paul Di Filippo, Locus
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.
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin
Title | Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Howard Freedman |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781604730944 |
Collected interviews with the renowned science fiction and fantasy writer known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories