Ursula K. Le Guin4.6 The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own.
"The Finder," a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. "The Bones of the Earth" features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. "Darkrose and Diamond" is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. "On the High Marsh" tells of the love of power-and of the power of love. "Dragonfly" shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom.
Concluding with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features two new maps of Earthsea.
What if the world was so terrible that your only hope for a happy life would be to hide away in the world's greatest amusement park...Dreamworld? In The Free Lunch, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Spider Robinson transports us to Dreamworld, a place where everybody has fun, dreams can come true, and the only sadness is when they close for the night.
With his perceptive grasp of human emotions and his deft hand at humor, Robinson masterfully tells the take of Mike, a young teen who escapes our own dark, tormented near future into a dream--into Dreamworld. There he meets Annie, another refugee who has built a life in the underworld of this fantastic amusement park, perhaps the last vestige of innocence left in the world. But it is tainted by a dark secret--a ruthless competitor, who can't possibly create an attraction that's as much fun as Dreamworld, has decided that if he can't beat Dreamworld, he might as well destroy it. There's another threat to Dreamworld. Suddenly there are more trolls at the end of the day than were there in the morning...and nobody, not even Mike or Annie, knows where they're from. But it's up to them and their passion for preserving this last haven of joy in a world of horrors to save Dreamworld...and Earth's future.
Юмористический роман на тему гениального изобретения чудаковатого учёного. Это гиперускоритель для мгновенного перемещения на сверхсветовые расстояния и как он повлиял на развитие цивилизации на Земле. С одной стороны — это неограниченный и неуправляемый доступ к звёздам для всех желающих, с другой стороны —попытка объединить разобщенные и враждебные друг другу страны планеты. Да и вроде удалось мимоходом создать Всегалактическую Федерацию.
Трудная задача выпала на долю Ударного корпуса быстрого реагирования: отыскать в бесконечном пространстве космоса потерянную родину человечества. Под видом передвижного цирка офицеры Корпуса Ньянгу Иоситаро и его друг Гарвин Янсма формируют боевой отряд и отправляются на поиски.
Мэтт Блэк умеет разговаривать с вещами и слышит мысли людей. Она вступает в контакт с удивительным домом и вместе " со своими друзьями помогает дому совершить перевоплощение.
The year is 1886. The United States has been in a state of undeclared war with the Cheyenne Alliance for decades. Custer's son was last seen in a newfangled flying machine. And giant lizards wander the plains. This is not history. This is the American West as it might have been...
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