Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Atterbery

In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Le Guin (1929-2018) was the recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Included in an appendix are essays and interviews about the novels, as well as Le Guins pronunciation guide to the names and languages of the Western Shore. This deluxe edition features Le Guins own previously unseen hand-drawn maps. Gav sets out to understand who he is, where he came from, and what his gift means. It makes him valuable, but it also makes him a threat. And in the Nebula Award-winning Powers, the young slave Gavir can remember any book after reading it just once. But in Memers house there is a secret room where the last few books in the city have been hidden. In Voices, Memer lives in a city conquered by fundamentalist and superstitious soldiers who have made reading and writing forbidden. Both discover their gifts are not what they thought. In Gifts, Orrec and Gry will inherit both their families domains and their gifts, the ability to communicate with animals, or control a mind, or maim or kill with only a word and gesture. All three novels feature the generous voice and deeply human concerns that mark all Le Guins work, and together they form an elegant anthem to the revolutionary and transformative power of words and storytelling.

Le Guins work presents a trilogy of coming-of-age stories set in the Western Shore-a world where young people find themselves struggling not just against racism, prejudice, and slavery, but with how to live with the mysterious and magical gifts they have been given. This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guins Nebula Award-winning young adult fantasy series-gathered for the first time in a deluxe collectors edition for readers of all ages Teenagers struggle to come to terms with their own mysterious and magical gifts as they come-of-age in the far-flung Western Shore. About the Book Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of unmaking-a violent talent shared by members of his family-he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Atterbery