City of Illusion

Name: City of Illusion
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN: 9781433243127

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 12/06/2007

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

He is a fullgrown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he has come from and no memory to tell who or what he is. His eyes are not the eyes of a human. The forest people take him in and raise him almost as a child, teaching him to speak, training him in forest lore, giving him all the knowledge they have. But they could not solve the riddle of his past, and at last he has to set out on a perilous quest to find his true selfand a universe of danger.

About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.

Ursula has influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell-and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Dutch on 2008-02-04 12:00:10

This audiobook doesn't exist. Even Amazon doesn't have it, nor do any of the used book vendors in Amazon's network. After it was my first choice on my BooksFree list for over a half year I gave up and read the old hardcover version. The three stories the last two of which are more closely related to each other than the first one share themes with LeGuin's later work, but aren't as well crafted. Why BooksFree continues to list the availablity of this audiobook as Medium is a mystery to me. You will not find this audiobook on Earth.

Goodreads review by Zanna on October 20, 2015

I am glad I made the decision to read the Hainish cycle from the start, even though I owe this to my OCD reading style. While each novel is entirely capable of standing alone, has very different protagonists and raises very different issues, the continuity of the world-building was satisfying. I esp......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on April 18, 2022

3.0 Stars The Hainish Cycle is an incredibly famous classic science fiction series. Yet, I feel like everyone (myself included) only reads the Left Hand of Darkness even though it's technically the fourth book in a series. So I was very grateful for the opportunity to finally read the first three boo......more

Goodreads review by manuti on June 20, 2022

Este libro es una recopilación de 3 novelas que se publicó en inglés de esta forma y también está traducido en español. Me resulta raro que hayan hecho esto dos veces con los libros del ciclo Hainish para englobarlos en este libro y en el que leí antes Los mundos de Ursula K. Le Guin. En esta ocasió......more