The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len…
Want to Read $ 13.99"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
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1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more
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2. La Brigade Chimérique. Tome 1
By: Fabrice Colin , Serge Lehman , Gess , Céline Bessonneau
3.79
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
Ils sont nés sur les champs de bataille de 14-18, dans le souffle des gaz et des armes à rayons X. … read more
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3. Sourdough and Other Stories
By: Angela Slatter
4.47
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccabl… read more
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"People, said Sybille, were not meant to be alone. Men and women, women and women, men and men, all should find each other. Solitude was for those broken beyond repair."-Angela Slatter, Sourdough and Other Stories
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5. A Boy and His Dog & "Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman
By: Harlan Ellison
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Audio Cassette
Published in Harlan Ellison's 1969 short-story collection, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart… read more
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6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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8. The Children Star
By: Joan Slonczewski
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The ruthless plans of Proteus Unlimited, a powerful and greedy corporation, to terraform the planet… read more
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9. Babel-17/Empire Star
By: Samuel R. Delany
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Author of the bestselling Dhalgrenand winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one … read more
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10. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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11. City on Fire
By: Garth Risk Hallberg
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's … read more
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12. True Names
By: Vernor Vinge , Marvin Minsky , Bob Walters
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Disaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new f… read more
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13. Strangers on a Train
By: Patricia Highsmith
3.73
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more
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"The word “marriage"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I know that Southern redhead type,"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train
14. La quinta bruja
By: Angela Slatter
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Las calles de Whitechapel destilan secretos, brujería y muerte. Kit Caswell es una joven policía… read more
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15. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- research
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- reference
- writing
- books about books
- literary criticism
"In many college English courses the words “myth"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
16. A ambos lados del espejo
By: Iván Ledesma
3.96
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
La suerte no siempre está echada a este lado del espejo El día en el que su pareja, Roger, final… read more
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17. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
By: Indra Das
4.22
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school r… read more
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18. Navigational Entanglements
By: Aliette de Bodard
4.05
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard presents yet another innovative space opera that broadens th… read more
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19. The Year Without Sunshine
By: Naomi Kritzer
4.23
Format: 35 pages, ebook
Hugo Voter Packet edition. read more
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20. Els confins i la tenebra (Stella Signata #1)
By: Ricard Efa
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Una sublevació militar amenaça amb trencar la Pau dels Confins, el sistema solar on la humanitat ha… read more
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21. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found: here A battle over the most sacred object in Chri… read more
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
