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One of Ursula Le Guin's famed hainish novels - set in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
'She is unique. She is legend' THE TIMES
'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD
'A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness' Martin Amis
Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.
Praise for City Of Illusions
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Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend. - The Times
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Well told, with an ingenious background and a subtle climax - Sunday Times
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A tour de force - Evening Standard
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A wonderfully mordant analyst of human weakness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.
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