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The Compass Rose
On sale
27th August 2015
Price: £4.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781473214378
‘The gems in this impressive collection have the same power to disconcert as her best novels’ Martin Amis
‘Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . she moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend’ THE TIMES
North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness … South to discover Antarctica with nine South American women … West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death … and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.
‘Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . she moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend’ THE TIMES
North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness … South to discover Antarctica with nine South American women … West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death … and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.
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Reviews
A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness. The gems in this impressive collection have the same power to disconcert as her best novels
Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . she moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend
One of the most accomplished of contemporary science fiction writers