{"product_id":"the-unreal-and-the-real-selected-stories-volume-two-outer-space-inner-lands-9781618730350","title":"The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space  Inner Lands","description":"\u003cp\u003eOuter Space  Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as \"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas \" \"Semleys Necklace \" and \"She Unnames Them\") which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless  hope to the outsider  and speaks truth to powerall the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.  Companion volume Where on Earth explores Le Guins satirical  risky  political and experimental earthbound stories. Both volumes include new introductions by the author.  Praise for Ursula K. Le Guins short stories:  She is the reigning queen of…but immediately we come to a difficulty  for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or  in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender  her queendom  or perhapsconsidering how she likes to mix and matchher quinkdom? Or may she more properly be said to have not one such realm  but two? Margaret Atwood  New York Review of Books  \"She is a splendid short-story writer.... Fiction  like Borgess  that finds its life in the interstices between the borders of speculative fiction and realism.\"San Francisco Chronicle  \"Ursula Le Guins prose breathes light and intelligence. She can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.\"Jonathan Lethem  \"Like all great writers of fiction  Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us  hearts eased  to our own.\"The Boston Globe  \"Admirers of fine literature  fantastic or not  will cherish this rich offering.\"Publishers Weekly  \"She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen… and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life  death  love  and sex.Newsweek  \"Le Guins powerful work illustrates that fantasy need not be escapist  that gender studies need not be dry or strident  and that entertainment need not be mindless.\"The Onion  Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels  eleven collections  essays  poetry  translations  and books for children. She lives in Portland  Oregon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280113754165,"sku":"ByrdShop_1618730355","price":119.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781618730350.jpg?v=1780621351","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-unreal-and-the-real-selected-stories-volume-two-outer-space-inner-lands-9781618730350","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}