SIGNED Rare URSULA LE GUIN The Telling 2000 ADVANCED READERS COPY!!

Description: This listing is for a RARE HAND SIGNED 2000 Houghton Mifflen HarcourtARC or ADVANCED READERS COPY ofTHE TELLING by the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and National Book Award Winning author URSULA K. LE GUINThis book won the Locus award in 2001! This book has been SIGNED by the author in black archival pen on the title page with her name. It has been flat signed - simply signed with only her name and no dedication or inscription...This was signed at a book signing appearance by Ursula Le Guin in Portland, Oregon; I was very fortunate to be there and this was signed IN MY PRESENCE.Condition is as follows: NEAR FINE in wraps.There is a small shelf wear on the some corners and on the cover. After the signing this has been stored in a bookcase in a smoke free and pet free home.This is a 2000 Houghton Mifflen Harcourt ARC or ADVANCED READER'S COPY. The term ARC is an abbreviation for ADVANCED READER'S COPY - it is sometimes known as an UNCORRECTED PROOF or GALLEY or Advance Reader's Edition as well. This is a copy of the book released well before the publication date for the use of reviewers or for promotion of the book. ARCs are sent to booksellers, reviewers, and others to get advance orders or to spark interest in the book's release. They are usually bound in softcover wraps and sometimes contain content that is later edited out or changed in the actual 1st printing. There are a limited number of these made and most are read and then discarded - many book collectors believe these to be the TRUE FIRST edition and because of their rarity can sometimes command many hundreds of dollars premium over the price of a regular first edition!!*** If you collect celebrated women's authors, Fantasy or Science Fiction, Young Adult books or just love the GENIUS of Ursula K. Le Guin, then this will be a WELCOME addition to your collection!! 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ABOUT THE BOOK THE TELLING An observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, Sutty is assigned to a new world in which a ruthless monolithic Corporation, seeking rapid technological advancement, has outlawed ancient beliefs and customs, but as Sutty journeys deep into the countryside and mountains, she discovers the Telling, the old faith of the Akans, a banned religion that teaches her about the meaning of her own existence. 75,000 first printing. Editorial Reviews Amazon.com ReviewEarthling Sutty has been living a solitary, well-protected life in Dovza City on the planet Aka as an official Observer for the interstellar Ekumen. Insisting on all citizens being pure "producer-consumers," the tightly controlled capitalist government of Aka--the Corporation--is systematically destroying all vestiges of the ancient ways: "The Time of Cleansing" is the chilling term used to describe this era. Books are burned, the old language and calligraphy are outlawed, and those caught trying to keep any part of the past alive are punished and then reeducated. Frustrated in her attempts to study the linguistics and literature of Aka's cultural past, Sutty is sent upriver to the backwoods town of Okzat-Ozkat. Here she is slowly charmed by the old-world mountain people, whose still waters, she gradually realizes, run very deep. But whether their ways constitute a religion, ancient traditions, philosophy, or passive, political resistance, Sutty is not sure. Delving ever deeper into her hosts' culture, Sutty finds herself on a parallel spiritual quest, as well.With quiet linguistic humor (Dovza citizens are passionate about their hot bitter beverage, akakafi--the ubiquitous Corporation brand is called Starbrew), dark references to the dangers of restricted cultural, political, and social freedom, and beautifully visualized worlds, award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin pens her latest in the Hainish cycle, which includes The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness. Le Guin explores her characters and societies with such care, such thoughtfulness, her novels call out for slow, deep attention. --Emilie Coulter From Publishers WeeklyIn this virtually flawless new tale set in her Hainish universe, Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness; Four Ways to Forgiveness) sends a young woman from Earth on her first mission, to the planet Aka as an Observer for the Ekumen. Although well prepared for her role, Sutty has been horribly scarred by her past. She grew up gay in a North America badly damaged by ecological stupidity and the excesses of a fundamentalist state religion called Unism. Traveling to Aka, she expected (and had been trained) to deal with a peaceful, essentially static culture based on an ancient, all-encompassing belief system akin to Taoism and known as the Telling. When she arrived, however, she discovered that during the decades it took her to reach the planet, Aka's culture has been radically transformed. The Telling has been all but banned, replaced by a soulless form of corporate communism. It becomes Sutty's task to take a harrowing journey into the high mountains, searching for the last, priceless depository of Akan traditional culture before it can be destroyed. As Le Guin notes in her preface, similarities to China during the Great Leap Forward are not entirely coincidental. Although this is a political and philosophical novel of the purest sort, it is anything but dry. With an anthropologist's eye, Le Guin develops her Akan culture in great detail, as she does her characters. Sutty is an entirely successful viewpoint character, a quirky mixture of competence and intense emotion. The Monitor, her primary nemesis on Aka, is nearly as compelling. This is a novel that aficionados of morally serious SF won't want to miss. (Sept.) FYI: Le Guin is the winner of several Nebula and Hugo awards for outstanding SF, as well as of a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalAs a member of the Ekumen's embassy on the planet Aka, Sutty undertakes a delicate mission that leads her to a mountain village reported to contain the last remnants of a dying culture. Following a trail of subtle clues concealed in stories and folk sayings, Sutty discovers the suppressed history of a planet willing to abandon its old ways in the name of progress. Le Guin's latest addition to her "Hainish" cycle (e.g., Rocannon's World) continues her exploration of human culture and society through the filter of the far future. (Le Guin was inspired by Chairman Mao's brutal suppression of Taoism in China.) This parable of the modern world's headlong rush toward monocultural sterility exemplifies the author's elegant simplicity and keen insight. A priority purchase for libraries.Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Kirkus ReviewsLe Guin's latest (Unlocking the Air, 1996, etc.) belongs to her Hainish cycle-Hain being the planet that originally seeded Earth, and many other worlds, with the human species; now the Hainish are revisiting lost worlds and drawing them into the benevolent Ekumene. Sutty, the envoy to planet Aka, grew up on an Earth ruled by a repressive religious dictatorship. Aka is run by a capitalist dictatorship, the Corporation. Sutty lives in Dovza City, full of good corporate citizens, but is not allowed to visit anywhere else. In its zeal to become a star-traveling civilization, the Corporation burns books and destroys vestiges of the planet's past-before unauthorized fanatics from Earth wrenched Aka's development onto its present path. Finally, Sutty receives permission to visit a remote mountain region, though she's dogged by a Monitor, a true believer and Corporation informer. From the mountain folk, who passively resist the Corporation, Sutty learns about the extraordinarily diverse, vital, integrated culture that once existed on Aka. Fascinated, she joins a spiritual pilgrimage to the sacred mountain, Silong, the secret repository of saved books and historical treasures. But can Sutty use her knowledge of the old and new Akan cultures to broker a deal to save Aka's treasures and moderate the worst excesses of its corporate state?The usual mesmerizing Le Guin narrative and intensity of concept, but too one-sided to provoke resonance or plumb the depths. First printing of 75,000; author tour -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.Review"Everything that has been said about Le Guin...is here on display in her newest Hainish novel." -- Jane Yolen"She can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory..." -- Jonathan Lethem...her clear, simple voice has intensified, too: an American Blake, a Northwestern Willa Cather. -- Polly Shulman, Newsday, September 24, 2000Her [Le Guin's] language, which sings true in every line, is simple and profound and her storytelling is sure. -- Morrie Ruvinsky, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000 Ursula K. Le Guin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959 and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". Her works explore Taoist, anarchist, ethnographic, feminist, psychological and sociological themes. She has received several Hugo and Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003. She has received eighteen Locus Awards, more than any other author. Her novel The Farthest Shore won the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1973. Le Guin was the Professional Guest of Honor at the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia. She received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the "Writers and Artists" category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage. In 2004, Le Guin was the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children's May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award. She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on 18 October 2006. Robert Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel Friday to Ursula.Biography Le Guin was born and raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of the anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and the writer Theodora Kroeber. Her father was granted the first Ph.D. in Anthropology in the United States in 1901 (Columbia University). Her mother's biography of Alfred Kroeber, Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration, is a good source for Le Guin's early years and for the biographical elements in her late works, especially her interest in social anthropology. She received her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Radcliffe College in 1951, and M.A. from Columbia University in 1952. She later studied in France, where she met her husband, historian Charles Le Guin. They were married in 1953. She became interested in literature when she was very young. At the age of eleven she submitted her first story to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction (it was rejected). Her earliest writings (little published at the time, but some appeared in adapted form much later in Orsinian Tales and Malafrena), were non-fantastic stories of imaginary countries. Searching for a publishable way to express her interests, she returned to her early interest in science fiction and began to be published regularly in the early 1960s. She became famous after the publication of her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Le Guin has lived in Portland, Oregon since 1958. She has three children and four grandchildren. Themes Much of Le Guin's science fiction places a strong emphasis on the social sciences, including sociology and anthropology, thus placing it in the subcategory known as soft science fiction. Her writing often makes use of unusual alien cultures to convey a message about human culture in general, for example, the exploration of sexual identity through the hermaphroditic race in The Left Hand of Darkness. Such themes place her work in the canon of feminist science fiction. Her works are also often concerned with ecological issues. Le Guin's work is marked by the attention she pays to the ordinary actions and transactions of everyday life. For example in 'Tehanu' it is central to the story that the main characters are concerned with the everyday business of looking after animals, tending gardens and doing domestic chores. Thus, her works can be seen as anthropological. They examine what humans do â€” on Earth or off. She creates "un-Earthly" perspectives to explore political and cultural themes. Le Guin has also written fiction set much closer to home; many of her short stories are set in our world in the present or the near future. A number of Le Guin's science fiction works, including her novels The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness, are set in a future, post-Imperial galactic civilization loosely connected by a co-operative body known as the Ekumen. Le Guin describes the Ekumen as a conduit for the exchange of information, goods, and mutual cultural understanding but not a governing body in any sense. Much of her science fiction work deals with the consequences of contact between different worlds and cultures and the Ekumen serves as a framework in which to stage these interactions. For example, the novels The Left Hand of Darkness and The Telling deal with the consequences of the arrival of Ekumen envoys (known as "mobiles") on remote planets and the culture shock that ensues. A notable feature of her science fiction work that sets it apart from much of mainstream 'hard' science fiction is that none of the civilizations she depicts possess reliable or useful faster-than-light travel. This comes into play in some of the stories and novels of the Ekumen. The protagonist of The Dispossessed is a physicist working on theories that could lead to faster-than-light communication. In other stories (some written earlier) we see the importance to the League of Worlds and the later Ekumen of a means of instantaneous interstellar communication, a device called the ansible. A remarkable thematic element to the Hainish Cycle novels and stories is in relation to the Ekumen's "Mobiles," who give up their connections to their home planets in order to travel in time-dilation (a few days pass for them on board their space ships while decades pass on both the worlds they are leaving behind and on the worlds they are heading towards). Generations pass where they left and are traveling to as they travel, their loved ones long gone back home when they arrive. This dynamic of loneliness creates an incredible pathos for the author's characters (often the protagonist), as they deal with leaving behind all they know and cultures they often do not expect to arrive to. In this loose background scenario, the human species originated on the planet Hain in the distant past, near the galactic center. A Galactic Empire had expanded far across the galaxy over many millennia but, because it lacked faster-than-light (FTL) travel or communication, the Empire was finally stretched beyond its limits by the vast distances involved and it collapsed catastrophically. Thousands of years passed, during which time the populations of many outlying planets became so isolated from the central galactic civilization that they lost all knowledge of their origins, reverting to more archaic forms of civilization and technology, and in some cases developing significant evolutionary differences. Some of the stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea describes "Churten" technology that provides travel faster than the speed of light that is impractical because it warps reality and the consciousnesses of travelers. Fiction Earthsea (fantasy) The Earthsea novels A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 The Tombs of Atuan, 1971 The Farthest Shore, 1972 (Winner of the National Book Award) Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Winner of the Nebula Award) Tales from Earthsea, 2001 The Other Wind, 2001 Note: The short story "Dragonfly" from Tales from Earthsea is intended to fit in between Tehanu and The Other Wind and, according to Le Guin, is "an important bridge in the series as a whole". The Earthsea short stories "The Word of Unbinding", 1975 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; originally published in the January 1964 issue of Fantastic) "The Rule of Names", 1975 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters) "Dragonfly" (in Legends, ed. Robert Silverberg; also in Tales from Earthsea) Tales from Earthsea, short story collection, 2001 (winner of Endeavour Award) Hainish Cycle (science fiction) The Hainish Cycle novels Rocannon's World, 1966 Planet of Exile, 1966 City of Illusions, 1967 The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 (winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award) The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974 (winner of the Hugo Award and Nebula Award) The Word for World is Forest, 1976 (winner of the Hugo Award) Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995 (Four Stories of the Ekumen) Worlds of Exile and Illusion, 1996 (omnibus of Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions) The Telling, 2000 (winner of Endeavour Award) The Hainish Cycle short stories "Dowry of the Angyar", 1964 (appears as "Semley's Necklace" in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; also used as the prologue of Rocannon's World) "Winter's King", 1969 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters) "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", 1971 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters) "The Day Before the Revolution", 1974 (in The Wind's Twelve Quarters; winner of the Nebula Award and Locus Award) "The Shobies' Story", 1990 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea) "Dancing to Ganam", 1993 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea) "Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea", 1994 (in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea) "The Matter of Seggri", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award) "Unchosen Love", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World) "Solitude", 1994 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the Nebula Award) "Coming of Age in Karhide", 1995 (in The Birthday of the World) "Mountain Ways", 1996 (in The Birthday of the World; winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award) "Old Music and the Slave Women", 1999 (in The Birthday of the World) Miscellaneous novels and story cycles The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 (made into TV movies, 1980 and 2002) The Eye of the Heron, 1978 (first published in the anthology Millennial Women) Malafrena, 1979 The Beginning Place, 1980 (also published as Threshold, 1986) Always Coming Home, 1985 Lavinia, 2008 Direction of the Road, ? Note: Le Guin has said that The Eye of the Heron might form part of the Hainish cycle. The other tales are unconnected with any of her other works, except that Malafrena takes place in the same realistic-but-imagined part of Europe as Orsinian Tales. Short story collections The Wind's Twelve Quarters, 1975 Orsinian Tales, 1976 The Compass Rose, 1982 Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences, 1987 Searoad, 1991 A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, 1994 Unlocking the Air and Other Stories, 1996 The Birthday of the World, 2002 Changing Planes, 2003 The Unreal and the Real: Volume One - Where on Earth, 2012The Unreal and the Real: Volume Two - Outer Space, Inner Lands, 2012 Books for children and young adults The Catwings Collection Catwings, 1988 Catwings Return, 1989 Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings, 1994 Jane on her Own, 1999 Annals of the Western Shore Gifts, 2004 Voices, 2006 Powers, 2007 Other books for children and young adults Very Far Away from Anywhere Else, 1976, ISBN 0-15-205208-9 Leese Webster, 1979, ISBN 0-689-30715-2 Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World, 1984, ISBN 0-399-21491-7 A Visit from Dr. Katz, 1988, ISBN 0-689-31332-2 Fire and Stone, 1989, ISBN 0-689-31408-6 Fish Soup, 1992, ISBN 0-689-31733-6 A Ride on the Red Mare's Back, 1992, ISBN 0-531-07079-4 Tom Mouse, 2002, ISBN 0-7613-1599-3 Nonfiction Prose The Language of the Night, 1979, revised edition 1992 Dancing at the Edge of the World, 1989 Revisioning Earthsea, 1992 (a published lecture - essay) Steering the Craft, 1998 (about writing) The Wave in the Mind, 2004 Poetry Wild Angels, 1975 Hard Words and Other Poems, 1981 Wild Oats and Fireweed, 1988 Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems, 1994 Sixty Odd: New Poems, 1999 Incredible Good Fortune, 2006Finding My Elegy, 2012 Translations and Renditions Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching, a Book about the Way & the Power of the Way, 1997 (a rendition and commentary) ISBN 1-57062-333-3 Kalpa Imperial, 2003, from AngÃ©lica Gorodischer's Spanish original. Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, from Gabriela Mistral's Spanish originals. See also: "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" Le Guin is a prolific author and has published many works that are not listed here. Many works were originally published in science fiction literary magazines. Those that have not since been anthologized have fallen into obscurity. Adaptations to film and television Despite her many awards and her considerable popularity, Le Guin's major SF and Fantasy works have not as yet been widely adapted for film or television. For television, The Lathe of Heaven has been adapted twice, in 1980 by thirteen/WNET New York, with her own participation, and in 2002 by the A&E Network; while the first two books of the Earthsea trilogy were adapted into the miniseries Legend of Earthsea in 2004 by the Sci Fi Channel. This adaptation was extremely poorly received by both readers of the books and Le Guin herself, who reports that she was "cut out of the process" and that the miniseries was "[a] far cry from the Earthsea I envisioned." The animated feature film Tales from Earthsea based on characters and events from the 3rd and 4th Earthsea books, was produced by Studio Ghibli in 2005 under the direction of GorÅ� Miyazaki. Le Guin was generally disappointed with the film, if not as outrightly disapproving as she been of the Sci Fi Channel miniseries, as both adaptations added major characters and events which she felt were unfaithful to her work in terms of both content and spirit. Most of all, she was saddened that Goro's father Hayao Miyazaki missed his chance to direct an Earthsea film. (The elder Miyazaki had asked permission to create an Earthsea adaptation back in the early 1980s, but Le Guin, not knowing his work, or indeed anime in general, turned him down. After viewing My Neighbour Totoro, she then came to the idea that if anyone should be allowed to direct an Earthsea film, it should be Hayao Miyazaki.) About the Author Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity. Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon. Keywords: Leguin Autograph Autographed flatsigned flat signed

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