{"product_id":"ursula-k-le-guin-language-of-the-night","title":"Ursula K. Le Guin: Language of the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin: Language of the Night\u003c\/strong\u003e is a new annotated edition of Le Guin's essays on writing, science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by David Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Guin wrote across genres for her whole life, and these essays are where she argued most directly for the seriousness of the fantastic. Ranging across genre, imagination and the ethics of the writer's work, the collection follows her emergence as one of the most influential literary voices of her time and makes the case that imagination is not escape but a means of seeing—and changing—the world. This Silver Press edition sets the essays alongside a foreword by her son Theo Downes-Le Guin and annotations by Downes-Le Guin and So Mayer, giving new readers the context behind each piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLe Guin's essays on writing, science fiction and fantasy gathered in one volume\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by novelist David Mitchell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword by Theo Downes-Le Guin, with annotations by Theo Downes-Le Guin and So Mayer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA companion to Silver Press's \u003cem\u003eSpace Crone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSteering the Craft\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Word for World\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Le Guin treated science fiction and fantasy as fully literary forms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHer argument for the imagination as an instrument of freedom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow she understood the ethical responsibilities of the writer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe thinking behind the worlds she built in her fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American writer of novels, short stories, poetry and essays, best known for the Earthsea books, \u003cem\u003eThe Left Hand of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work moved freely between genres and remains central to debates about gender, ecology and the uses of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781068240959\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Silver Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Writers, readers of speculative fiction, and anyone interested in how imagination shapes the way we design and inhabit the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silver Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51415429218529,"sku":"9781068240959","price":37.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9781068240959.jpg?v=1794362417","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/ursula-k-le-guin-language-of-the-night","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}