The Lost and the Found: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Informationen zum Autor Ursula K. Le Guin Klappentext Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin! an icon in American literature! collected for the first time and introduced by the legendary author in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor! the Nebula! Hugo! World Fantasy! and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years! but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in the wonderful "The Found and the Lost." This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library." The Found and the Lost VASTER THAN EMPIRES AND MORE SLOW TREES AGAIN. As I recall, Robert Silverberg, who first published this story in New Dimensions 1, asked very gently if I would change the title. I could see where a reader about halfway through might find the title all too descriptive of the story itself; but it was too beautiful, and too beautifully apt, to part with, and Mr. Silverberg let me keep it. It’s from Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress”— Our vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow. . . . Like “Nine Lives,” this is not a psychomyth but a regular science fiction story, developed not for action/adventure, but psychologically. Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens. Obviously my interest is in what goes on inside. Inner space and all that. We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden in the foliage here is a tiny act of homage. The protagonist of “He Who Shapes” by Roger Zelazny, one of the finest science fiction stories I know, is called Charles Render. I christened a syndrome after him. IT WAS ONLY DURING THE earliest decades of the League that the Earth sent ships out on the enormously long voyages, beyond the pale, over the stars and far away. They were seeking for worlds which had not been seeded or settled by the Founders on Hain, truly alien worlds. All the Known Worlds went back to the Hainish Origin, and the Terrans, having been not only founded but salvaged by the Hainish, resented this. They wanted to get away from the family. They wanted to find somebody new. The Hainish, like tiresomely understanding parents, supported their explorations, and contributed ships and volunteers, as did several other worlds of the League. All these volunteers to the Extreme Survey crews shared one peculiarity: they were of unsound mind. What sane person, after all, would go out to collect information that would not be received for five or ten centuries? Cosmic mass interference had not yet been eliminated from the operation of the ansible, and so instantaneous communication was reliable only within a range of 120 lightyears. The explorers would be quite isolated. And of course they had no idea what they might come back to, if they came back. No normal human being who had experienced time-slippage of even a few decades between League worlds would volunteer for a round trip of centuries. The Surveyors were escapists, misfits. They were nuts. Ten of them climbed aboard the ferry at Smeming Port, and made varyingly inept attempts to get to know one another during the three days the ferry took getting to their ship, Gum. Gum is a Cetian nickname, on the order of Baby or Pet. There were two Cetians on the team, two Hainishmen, one Beldene, and five Terrans; the Cetian-built ship was chartered by the Government of Earth. Her motley crew came aboard wriggling through the coupling tube one by one like apprehensive spermatozoa try...

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• Autori: Ursula Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781481451390
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-5139-0
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy