50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS

Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.

Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.

◎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

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science fiction, on writing, and on the future of literary science fiction.
“We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks to the language of the night.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin’s sharp and witty voice is on full display in this collection of twenty-four essays, revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979. The collection covers a wide range of topics and Le Guin’s origins as a writer, her advocacy for science fiction and fantasy as mediums for true literary exploration, the writing of her own major works such as A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and her role as a public intellectual and educator. The book and each thematic section are brilliantly introduced and contextualized by Susan Wood, a professor at the University of British Columbia and a literary editor and feminist activist during the 1960s and ’70s.
A fascinating, intimate look into the exceptional mind of Le Guin whose insights remain as relevant and resonant today as when they were first published.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

"Aqueles que abandonam Omelas" é ambientado numa cidade onde a felicidade de todos depende da infelicidade de uma criança, presa na sujeira, escuridão e miséria. Até quando isso pode durar?

Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other.

A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family.

Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.

The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers!

When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.

Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.

Ursula K. Le Guin was one of our most imaginative writers, a radical thinker, and a feminist icon. The interviews collected here span 40 years of her pioneering and prolific career.

When she began writing in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin was as much of a literary outsider as one can be: she was a woman writing in a landscape dominated by men, she wrote genre at a time where it was dismissed as non-literary, and she lived out West, far from fashionable east coast literary circles. The interviews collected here—covering everything from her Berkeley childhood to her process of world-building; from her earliest experiments with genre to envisioning the end of capitalism—highlight that unique perspective, which conjured some of the most prescient and lasting books in modern literature.

Davidson, le capitaine, sait ce qu'il a à faire. La Terre manque de bois ; Athshe, la planète-forêt, en fournit autant qu'il faut. Les créâtes, ces singes verts, abattent les arbres sous les ordres de Davidson. Athshe deviendra un vrai paradis et les créâtes n'en profiteront pas.

Le seul qui les protège, c'est Lyubov, ce crétin de spé. Il a sauvé l'un deux, Selver, qui renâclait parce qu'on avait tué sa femme. Un comble ! Et maintenant Selver et quelques autres ont fui dans la forêt ; ils sont un peu moins rêveurs ; ils deviennent violents, commes les umins. Mais le pire, c'est que la Terre entre dans la Ligue des Mondes et qu'il faut arrêter le massacre. Et Selver songe à se venger en chantant. Alors là, non ! non ! NON !

Ursula Le Guin, née en 1929, est la fille de l'ethnologue Theodora Kroeber. Depuis des années, elle occupe dans la S.F. une place à part : sans méconnaître les cauchemars ambiants, elle édifie des univers chatoyants où des personnages étrangement sereins s'essaient à tenir compte des autres, à respecter leurs particularités, à vivre ensemble tout simplement. Elle a obtenu le prix Hugo en 1975, pour son roman les Dépossédés.

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.

The story "Omelas" was first published in New Dimensions 3 (1973), a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973, and the following year it won the prestigious Hugo Award for best short story.

The work was subsequently printed in Le Guin's short story collection "The Wind's Twelve Quarters" (1975).

Dentre as temáticas do universo sci-fi, nenhuma delas é tão popular, envolvente e plural quanto as viagens no tempo. Esta coletânea reúne, em um único volume e pela primeira vez no Brasil, dezoito contos de alguns dos gigantes do universo sci-fi, abrangendo cinco décadas, de 1940 a 1990, e incluindo desde “Um Som de Trovão”, de Ray Bradbury, que inspirou o nome da famosa teoria do Efeito Borboleta, até Ursula K. LeGuin, em “Outra História ou um Pescador do Mar Interior”, ou mesmo uma ideia impensável, como no conto do premiado Jack Dann “Inversão do Tempo”, que propõe respostas surpreendentes para uma pergunta perturbadora: e se todos viajassem no tempo, menos você?

Genly Ai foi enviado a Gethen com a missão de convencer seus governantes a se unirem a uma grande comunidade universal. Ao chegar no planeta Inverno, como é conhecido por aqueles que já vivenciaram seu clima gelado, o experiente emissário sente-se completamente despreparado para a situação que lhe aguardava. Os habitantes de Gethen fazem parte de uma cultura rica e quase medieval, estranhamente bela e mortalmente intrigante. Nessa sociedade complexa, homens e mulheres são um só e nenhum ao mesmo tempo. Os indivíduos não possuem sexo definido e, como resultado, não há qualquer forma de discriminação de gênero, sendo essas as bases da vida do planeta. Mas Genly é humano demais. A menos que consiga superar os preconceitos nele enraizados a respeito dos significados de feminino e masculino, ele corre o risco de destruir tanto sua missão quanto a si mesmo.

Os Despossuídos, de Ursula K. Le Guin, é um romance de ficção científica ambientado no mesmo universo que A Mão Esquerda da Escuridão. O livro ganhou o prêmio Nebula de melhor romance em 1974, além do Hugo e do Locus em 1975. A obra lida com temas fundamentais a sua época, como o capitalismo, o comunismo russo e o anarquismo, além dos conceitos de individual e coletivo.

O romance se passa em dois planetas-gêmeos: Uras e Anarres. O primeiro é um mundo dividido em vários estados e dominado pelos dois maiores, que obviamente são rivais. Numa alusão clara aos Estados Unidos (representados por A-Io) e à União Soviética (representada por Thu), um dos estados possui uma economia forte e uma sociedade patriarcal, enquanto o outro se posiciona como proletário e deseja imprimir seu modelo em todo o planeta. Além disso, há um terceiro país, Benbili, que, embora subdesenvolvido, é de extrema importância e se torna palco de uma revolução apoiada por Thu. Com medo de perder sua influência ali, A-Io invade o país, gerando uma guerra disfarçada entre os dois principais blocos.

Já o planeta Anarres vive uma situação bem diferente: sua política anarquista, que representa uma terceira via à crise planetária de Urra, cria uma ilusão de sociedade perfeita. Tal ilusão só é quebrada quando um jovem e brilhante físico, Shevek, descobre a “Teoria da Simultaneidade”, que pode acabar com o isolamento do planeta, assim como favorecer as guerras de seu gêmeo.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”

On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”
On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.”

Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she’s in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice—sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical—shines. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s online writing, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her unceasing wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

Praise for NO TIME TO SPARE

• A TimeOut Book to Cozy Up to This December
• A Real Simple Best Book to Read in December
• A Bustle Best Book to Read in December
• One of Southern Living's Unputdownable Reads to Curl Up with in December
• A Harper's Bazaar Best New Book to Read in December
• A Most Anticipated Title of the Fall from Vulture
• A Book Riot Must-Read Book for December

“This delightful book [is] inquisitive and stroppily opinionated in equal measure…In even these miscellanies, composed in [Le Guin’s] off hours, the sentences are perfectly balanced and the language chosen with care. After all, she writes, ‘Words are my matter—my stuff.’ And it’s through their infinite arrangements…that Ms. Le Guin’s extraordinary imaginary worlds have been built and shared.”—Wall Street Journal

“There are shades of Adrienne Rich here…At the end of ‘No Time to Spare,’ having enjoyed all the Annals of Pard and the Steinbeck anecdotes, the stories about the Oregon desert and the musings on belief, all I could think was: I want Le Guin to keep going, on and on. I want to read more.”—Michelle Dean, The Los Angeles Times

“‘No Time to Spare,’ deriving from Le Guin’s online essays, covers just about anything that crosses her mind, from 'lit biz' to cats to the Oregon landscape…Might there be truth to the commonplace that science fiction writers are prophets?...A year ago I argued that Le Guin deserved a Nobel Prize in literature. In fact — what a fantasy! — she ought to be running the country.”—The Washington Post

“In 'No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters,' Le Guin shows that elders have plenty to teach…[She] finds inspiration in the everyday and makes it sparkle with her prose…In step with her legacy, [she] challenges us to reconsider what we automatically accept…“No Time to Spare” will leave readers hoping that Le Guin is given a bit more time to share her observations — on aging, art, our world — and to remind us of things we mustn’t forget.”—Newsday

“[No Time to Spare is] erudite, witty and…wise…even in pieces about her cat, or about answering fan mail, [Le Guin] makes the reader continually conscious of the ways that her age is a part of her life. That subtle coherence gives the book a special feeling, to borrow her words…a ‘steady, luminous ethical focus’…Deep down there: that is where Le Guin has taken readers for decade after decade, and where, these essays show, she is capable of taking them still.”—The Chicago Tribune

“Le Guin’s new book, No Time To Spare…feels like the surprising and satisfying culmination to a career in other literary forms…Even in the familiar relationship of an old woman and her cat, Le Guin finds an ambit for challenging moral insight and matter for an inquisitiveness that probes the deep time of evolution...Blogs may not be novels, but a blog by Le Guin is no ordinary blog, either. It is a comfort to know, as reality seems to grow more claustrophobic and inescapable, that she remains at her desk, busily subverting our world.”—The New Republic

“The more you re-read this collection of blog posts by science fiction Grandmaster Le Guin, the more you're convinced of Oliver Wendell Holmes's quip that for the true thinker, nothing is trivial… [No Time to Spare] is delivered in the core-drilling, clear, thoughtful language of somebody who's been crafting English for more than half a century – but the entries on the craft of writing itself are, perhaps predictably, the best things in the book.”—Christian Science Monitor

“[Le Guin’s] clever observations and sharp, nimble prose provide a window into the interior life of the award-winning novelist.” —Harper’s Bazaar

"[No Time to Spare] touches on...everything from feminism to swear words in fiction. Each entry is filled with warmth, insight, and humor."—Real Simple

“[An] altogether fantastic collection No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters…[is] a magnificent read in its tessellated totality.”—Brain Pickings

“Le Guin is a natural storyteller, and these snippets from her life are inarguably delightful. She is certainly a lioness in winter here, as focused as she has ever been on the things that matter most to her. Old age is not for the young, she posits—and it is a slogan not intended as complaint, but rallying cry. Spend a little time with octogenarian Ursula K. Le Guin, and the prospect of growing old becomes a bit less daunting.”—BookPage

"Le Guin is 88 and shows no sign of slowing down in this essay collection, dispensing serious wisdom about our world, politics, literature, aging, and more."—Book Riot

“Reading the latest book from Portland writer Ursula K. Le Guin…is a bit like having a one-way conversation with a funny, cranky, keen-eyed old friend…Even when you want to quibble with her, Le Guin keeps you thoroughly engaged…It can be fun. It can be startling. It can get your back up… As you might expect from an author whose career has been devoted to imagining alternative worlds in close detail, she has a knack for stepping back from life on Earth and seeing it for the strange thing it is.”
—The Oregonian

"Rife with insight [and] humor."—The Columbus Dispatch

“A delightfully random bouquet of musings on aging, writing, the moral character of the United States, Homer, her cat Pard, and everything in between…Following LeGuin’s penetrating mind as she thinks about the problems of our world and puzzles of language makes No Time to Spare a more than worthwhile read for fans and new readers alike.”—The Riveter

“Le Guin is a thoughtful and careful writer, and so her opinions are thoughtfully and carefully organized. She knows what she thinks, and she writes so well that you’ll want to return to these candid essays…like returning to an older, wiser friend.”
—Omnivoracious

“No Time to Spare presents the best of Le Guin's blog: sharp-eyed, big-hearted, idiosyncratic and highly enjoyable…Both Le Guin's eye for detail and her dry wit are on full display here…Readers will find much to think about in this wise and eloquent collection.”—Shelf Awareness

“To Le Guin…what truly matters are the words she thinks about, rigorous in her examination. Her expression of these thoughts reads more like mini-essays than blog posts and invite close reading, which always reaps rich rewards, the true gift of this lovely book.”—Booklist

"Spirited, wry reflections on aging, literature, and America's moral life...An entertaining collection...Thoughtful musings from a deft and sharply insightful writer." —Kirkus

“Short, punchy, and canny meditations on aging, literature, and cats…[Le Guin] offers her many fans a chance to share her clear-eyed experience of the everyday.” —Publishers Weekly

Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin

“There is no better spirit in all of American letters than that of Ursula Le Guin.” —Choire Sicha, Slate

"As a deviser of worlds, as a literary stylist, as a social critic and as a storyteller, Le Guin has no peer. From the time of her first published work in the mid-1960s, she began to push against the confines of science fiction, bringing to bear an anthropologist's acute eye for large social textures and mythic structures, a fierce egalitarianism and a remarkable gift of language, without ever renouncing the sense of wonder and the spirit of play inherent in her genre of origin." —Michael Chabon

"One of the most original imaginations ever to grace American letters...Through decades and scores of books, the genre Le Guin made her own has itself grown up — writers from David Mitchell to Salman Rushdie have walked through the door Le Guin opened...To sit and talk with Le Guin is to engage a powerful mind that has responded to ideological entrapments or career bumps by carpentering a new space for itself. She is brisk and funny, but unsparing when asked to comment on something which, in her mind, does not measure up...She shows that stories that stand the test of time can come from something as simple as fellowship: like a family, like an extraordinary body of work, like a house built from a kit, standing proudly on a hill, more than a hundred years later." —John Freeman, Boston Globe

“Le Guin, of course, has long been one of our most powerful writers of conscience.” —David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
"It’s hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." —Scott Timber, Salon

“She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is.” —Margaret Atwood

“Ursula K. Le Guin’s prose breathes light and intelligence. She can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.” —Jonathan Lethem

“There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin’s.” —Grace Paley

“Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. She creates stories for everyone from New Yorker literati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses.” —Sarah Smith, Boston Globe

"[Le Guin] is frequently referred to as 'the best of' for all manner of things—like best fantasy writer, best science fiction writer, best female writer—all of which is silly, as she both defies and accepts all categorization. Her influence on generations of readers and writers, from George R.R. Martin to Jennifer Egan to David Mitchell, is as evident as it is impossible to overstate. Admired for her quiet daring, her structures, and her inventions, most of all she is revered for her sentences." —Choire Sicha, Interview Magazine

◎本書榮獲
美國雨果獎（Hugo Awards）最佳長篇小說獎
美國星雲獎（Nebula Awards）最佳長篇小說獎
永恆的性別與科幻文學經典
當代科幻小說在主流文學界奠定地位的重要代表作之一
一年到頭氣候均為嚴寒的冬星上，居民的外貌酷似地球人，卻有個重大差異：他們平日是中性，只在情慾勃發期時身體會變化出性別，具備性魅力以尋找性伴侶；一旦情慾期結束，又回復成無性的身體狀態。
星際聯盟男性使者真力．艾隻身來到冬星，自此踏入同體雙性的異文化世界。他一面研究此地社會文化，一面身負大任，希望說服國王同意加入聯盟，因而捲入詭譎的政治衝突。面對奇特的生理差異和複雜的社交文化，在信任與背叛之間，他該如何穿越內心的冰原？
光明是黑暗的左手，
黑暗是光明的右手。
二合為一，生命與死亡，
並肩躺臥，如情慾勃發的愛侶，
如緊握的雙手，
如同終點與道路。
娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩在長篇小說體裁中穿插了人類學田野日誌、民間故事採集記錄、任務報告、創世神話等多種文學形式，使得小說在外星使節真力．艾的個人經歷與思維之外展開了恢弘的多元文化視野。
「對我而言，我僅僅是在觀察－－以某種特定、歧異，並且適用於科幻小說的思考實驗模式來觀察－－倘若你在某些特定時節的特定時刻，仔細審視我們自己，我們早已經是雙性同體的存在。」
早已習慣以男女性別二分的視角來看待、思考事物的我們，忽略了什麼？長期研讀老子哲學的勒瑰恩，成功且迷人地在這部早期寫作生涯里程碑之作中闡述了她對二元分立的思考價值觀的反思。

Terremer est un lieu magique et ensorcelé. Une mer immense recouverte d’un chapelet d’îles où les sorciers pratiquent la magie selon des règles très strictes. On y suit les aventures de Ged, un éleveur de chèvres qui, au terme d’une longue initiation, deviendra l’Archimage le plus puissant de Terremer, mais aussi celles de Tenar, haute prêtresse du temple des Innommables de l’île d'Atuan, de Tehanu, la fille-dragon, et de Aulne le sorcier qui refait chaque nuit le même rêve terrifiant. Autour de la grande histoire gravitent des contes qui enrichissent et explorent ce monde où enchanteurs et dragons se côtoient.

Cette édition intégrale et illustrée de Terremer réunit les romans qui ont fait le succès de ce cycle mythique et emblématique de l’œuvre d’Ursula K. Le Guin, ainsi que deux nouvelles inédites en France et une introduction de l’auteur écrite spécialement pour cette édition.

Terremer est un lieu magique et ensorcelé. Une mer immense recouverte d’un chapelet d’îles où les sorciers pratiquent la magie selon des règles très strictes. On y suit les aventures de Ged, un éleveur de chèvres qui, au terme d’une longue initiation, deviendra l’Archimage le plus puissant de Terremer, mais aussi celles de Tenar, haute prêtresse du temple des Innommables de l’île d'Atuan, de Tehanu, la fille-dragon, et de Aulne le sorcier qui refait chaque nuit le même rêve terrifiant. Autour de la grande histoire gravitent des contes qui enrichissent et explorent ce monde où enchanteurs et dragons se côtoient.

Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk - powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord - embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world -- even beyond the realm of death -- as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

Tenar, devenue guérisseuse et sorcière, accepte la responsabilité de Tehanu, la petite fille qui a été atrocement mutilée. Mais Tehanu est aussi une fille-dragon. Un épisode essentiel du grand cycle de Terremer.