The Birthday of the World, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Birthday of the World, Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Birthday of the World
And Other Stories

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Christina Moore

Unabridged: 14 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/04/2019

Synopsis

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.

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

Goodreads review by Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship on July 12, 2024

A hard collection to rate, because I had very different reactions to different stories. There are eight here, ranging from short story to long novella, some connected to other works and some not. Overall I have a lot of respect for Le Guin’s writing: I love her anthropological approach to science fi......more

Goodreads review by Tunde on October 05, 2007

Wow. I was an anthropology and sociology major at the University of Michigan, and I picked up this book for free at a used book sale. Impressed would be an understatement. Guin's stories are as thorough as the ethnographies that I have to read for my Anthro classes; class, gender, inequality, signif......more

Goodreads review by Julio on December 25, 2023

En el programa Los diez mejores cuentos leídos en 2023 hablo con más detalle del cuento Paraísos perdidos: [URL not allowed] Continuamos con el ciclo de Hainish. En esta ocasión se trata de una colección de relatos escrita a la entrada del siglo XX que buscan complementar los mundos......more

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