Para renascer é preciso morrer…

A garota não tem outro nome além de Arha, a Devorada. Desde os cinco anos, a vida de Arha foi prometida aos Inominados como sua mais alta Sacerdotisa, um dever ao qual ela está ligada mesmo além da morte. A Sacerdotisa dança sozinha diante de seu trono, e só ela conhece os caminhos secretos e cegos das Tumbas de Atuan e de seu Labirinto. É Arha quem derrama sangue por eles quando o exigem.

E, então, um jovem feiticeiro chega, com o seu coração concentrado no tesouro que está em algum lugar dentro do labirinto mortal dos Inominados. Ged sabe tudo sobre o poder dos nomes e os perigos de enfrentar a escuridão.

Para Arha, uma mulher criada nas sombras e que jurou guardar os túmulos, tudo o que ela conhece está em perigo. A Sacerdotisa terá de provar sua lealdade aos Deuses Inominados ou fugir da escuridão que se tornou o seu próprio domínio.

Aclamada como uma das melhores séries de fantasia de todos os tempos e ganhadora dos principais prêmios, como Locus e Hugo, a obra de Ursula K. Le Guin, que se tornou referência e inspiração para a literatura fantástica mundial, chega agora em versão definitiva com ilustrações do inigualável Charles Vess.

Há quem diga que o feiticeiro mais poderoso de todos os tempos é um homem chamado Gavião. Este livro narra as aventuras de Ged, o menino que um dia se tornará essa lenda.

Ainda pequeno, o pastor órfão de mãe descobriu seus poderes e foi para uma escola de magos. Porém, deslumbrado com tudo o que a magia podia lhe proporcionar, Ged foi logo dominado pelo orgulho e a impaciência e, sem querer, libertou um grande mal, um monstro assustador que o levou a uma cruzada mortal pelos mares solitários.

Publicado originalmente em 1968, O feiticeiro de Terramar se tornou um clássico da literatura de fantasia. Ged é um predecessor em magia e rebeldia de Harry Potter. E Ursula K. Le Guin é uma referência para escritores do gênero como Patrick Rothfuss, Joe Abercrombie e Neil Gaiman.

Escrito em 1974 pela brilhante e premiada Ursula K. Le Guin, Os Despossuídos é uma ficção científica incomum, utópica e distópica, sobre dois planetas gêmeos separados por conflitos e desconfianças, e um homem que arriscará tudo para reuni-los.

Urras é um mundo de abundantes recursos dividido em vários estados-nação. Em meio a extremos de riqueza e pobreza, dois deles estão em guerra para estender sua influência – e seu sistema político – sobre os demais. Anarres, por sua vez, é o planeta recluso e anarquista gêmeo de Urras, cuja visão utópica de seus colonizadores acabou criando uma ilusão de sociedade perfeita. Essa ilusão só é quebrada quando Shevek, um jovem físico brilhante de Anarres, descobre a Teoria da Simultaneidade, uma ideia que pode acabar com o isolamento de seu planeta e, ao mesmo tempo, avivar as guerras do planeta vizinho.

Seguindo o estilo de Le Guin, este livro aborda questões de fundo sociológico, como liberdade, desigualdade, individual versus coletivo, e temas políticos cruciais, como anarquismo e polarizações políticas. Embora seja fruto da influência da Guerra Fria, este livro continua cativante e extremamente atual. Situado no mesmo universo ficcional de A mão esquerda da escuridão , outro clássico da autora, Os Despossuídos recebeu o prêmio Nebula em 1974 e os prêmios Hugo e Locus em 1975.

A purrpurri of the literary legend's quirky and winsome cat poems, mediations, and drawings.

Includes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu and other delights from a lifetime of reflection on the mystery and magic of cats.

"The presence of a cat keeps me in touch with the mystery, the unreasonableness, the beauty, the stubborn wildness of the nonhuman world." In her life as in her art, Ursula K. Le Guin was fascinated by the feline. This irresistable little book gathers poems, mediations, and drawings dedicated to the complicated creature that her captured her imagination. Here are:

• The Art of Bunditsu, Le Guin's hard-to-find “tabbist” meditation on the arranging of cats
• Cat Poems, more than two dozen gems, many illustrated by Le Guin herself
• Supermouse Comix! Historic First Issue! Le Guin's one-of-a-kind comic
• Cat a series of letters between Le Guin’s cat and those of her daughter detailing the Five Deliberations that cats spend their lives studying
• Cat Tai Chi, as depicted in a charming series of drawings

A must for cat lovers and Le Guin fans alike, this is the purr-fect literary companion for every reader.

On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible.

The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with their elaborate social systems and alien minds. But in the course of a long journey across the ice, he reaches an understanding with one of the Gethenians—it might even be a kind of love...

地海東北角的卡耳格四島，地理人文俗迥不同於地海群島區，人們信神而不信魔法，統治四島的霸主更自立為神，要百姓膜拜。在諸神中地位最高也最古老的神是「累世無名者」，蜷居於峨團島的地底深處，歷代均由女祭司奉祀。峨團陵墓這塊位於沙漠中的聖地與世隔絕，只有女祭司、宦人、幾個守衛和如隸居住。恬娜自小即受訓成為峨團陵墓現世第一女祭司「阿兒哈」，在如此殊異隔離的環境中，會經歷什麼樣的生活與試煉？陵墓地底的幽暗迷宮是神域禁地，也是她一人的國度，除了她之外，任何人都不得踏入迷宮，否則便會遭「累世無名者」的黑暗吞噬。然而，她竟在這永恆的黑暗中看到一絲光亮．．．．．這道微光將對她的生命造成什麼樣的衝擊？

In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, a commemorative edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning classic, a profound and thoughtful tale of anarchism and capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and one ambitious man’s quest to bridge the ideological chasm separating two worlds. This special edition includes a new foreword by Karen Joy Fowler.

The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of anarchist Shevek, the “galactically famous scientist,” who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

Anarres, Shevek’s homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—defined by warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to unify the two civilizations. In the face of great hostility, outright threats, and the pain of separation from his family, he makes an unprecedented trip to Urras. Greater than any concern for his own wellbeing is the belief that the walls of hatred, distrust, and philosophic division between his planet and the rest of the civilized universe must be torn down. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and explore differences in customs and cultures, determined to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.

To visit Urras—to learn, to teach, to share—will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. Almost immediately upon his arrival, he finds not the egotistical philistines he expected, but an intelligent, complex people who warmly welcome him. But soon the ambitious scientist and his gift is seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.

The bestselling Catwings series!

Mrs. Jane Tabby can't explain why her four precious kittens were born with wings, but she's grateful that they are able to use their flying skills to soar away from the dangerous city slums where they were born. However, once the kittens escape the big city, they learn that country life can be just as difficult!

ELE SE PÔS A SALVAR UM PLANETA, QUANDO NÃO ERA CAPAZ SEQUER DE SALVAR A PRÓPRIA PELE

O etnólogo Rocannon está liderando uma pesquisa em um mundo remoto povoado por três espécies nativas: os habitantes de cavernas Gdemiar, os humanoides Fiia, e o clã guerreiro Liuar. Mas, quando o planeta tecnologicamente primitivo é subitamente invadido e atacado por uma frota de navios vindo das estrelas, Rocannon é o único pesquisador sobrevivente. Isolado entre os povos alienígenas, ele lidera a batalha para libertar esse mundo recém-descoberto e se depara com lendas que surgem ao seu redor durante a luta.

O Mundo de Rocannon foi o primeiro livro publicado de Ursula K. Le Guin e é parte do Ciclo Hainish, série premiada com os mais importantes prêmios para literatura de ficção científica. Retratada em um planeta sem nome, a jornada de Rocannon expande questões universais de perda, companheirismo, isolamento, redenção e amor.

In this intriguing tale (not for children), storyteller extraordinaire Ursula K. Le Guin explores the magic of animals. Her animal characters -- from the irreverent trickster Coyote to the wise matriarch Grandmother Spider -- seem like people to us, just as they do to the little girl who finds herself living among them. We learn, with the girl, that these "Old People" once lived freely on the earth but now must maintain their lifeways carefully alongside the "New People" -- humans.Susan Seddon Boulet chose this tale to illustrate, completing twenty works for its publication. They are extremely effective in bringing Le Guin's characters to life, imbuing them, of course, with Boulet's singular vision of the otherworldly realms occupied by animal spirits. This book is a must for any serious collector of Boulet art.

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.

Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.

This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew.

With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.

O planeta Athshe era um verdadeiro paraíso, coberto por densas e colossais florestas. Seus habitantes, humanoides com pouco mais de um metro de altura e corpos cobertos por pelos verdes e sedosos, viviam em paz.

Então outros vieram. Muito mais altos e de pele lisa, eles caíram do céu e começaram a desbravar o território ao seu redor, enxergando os nativos como meros animais selvagens. Eles vieram de um mundo em ruínas e superpovoado, faminto por matérias-primas, madeira e grãos: a Terra.

Sem precedentes culturais para tirania, escravidão ou guerra, os nativos encontram-se à mercê de seus novos e brutais colonizadores.

Quando o desespero atinge níveis inimagináveis, uma revolução é inevitável. Cada golpe contra os invasores será um golpe contra sua própria humanidade. Mas os conquistadores alienígenas os ensinaram a odiar... e não há como voltar atrás.

The forest dwellers of Athshe lived in harmony and enjoyed their worship of dreams. Until men came to strip the planet of its timber. They enslaved the Astsheans forced them to plunder the forest and destroyed the forest. Until the despised 'Creechies' learned to fight back ...

A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity.

In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve reality itself as Dr. Haber becomes adept at manipulating George's dreams for his own purposes.

The Lathe of Heaven is an eerily prescient novel from award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin that masterfully addresses the dangers of power and humanity's self-destructiveness, questioning the nature of reality itself. It is a classic of the science fiction genre.

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, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

Überarbeitete Neuausgabe des berühmten Klassikers.

Urras und Anarres, zwei Schwesterplaneten eines Sonnensystems, werden zwar von einem Volk bewohnt, allerdings von zwei unterschiedlichen politischen Systemen beherrscht: Als auf dem kapitalistischen Urras eine anarchistische Revolte ausbrach, gewährte man den Aufständischen freies Geleit. Jahre später sind sowohl das anarchistische Utopia auf Anarres wie auch die kapitalistische Gesellschaft auf Urras gefestigt. Als der Physiker Shevek eine bahnbrechende Erfindung macht, die den interstellaren Raumflug revolutionieren kann, fehlt auf Anarres das Geld für die Umsetzung, und so wandert er nach Urras aus. Fortan gilt er auf seinem Planeten als Verräter, aber auch auf Urras begegnet man ihm mit Mißtrauen.

Ursula K. Le Guin unterzieht durch die Augen Sheveks die politischen Systeme Kapitalismus und Anarchismus einem Vergleich. Die Enteigneten gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Science-Fiction-Romane des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, als eine der maßgeblichen politischen Utopien und steht gleichberechtigt neben Werken wie 1984 oder Schöne neue Welt. Der Roman, längst ein anerkannter Klassiker, liegt hier erstmals in der definitiven Fassung vor.

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, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

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, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.