Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena / Stories and Songs

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Before she upended the conventions of science fiction with such path-breaking works as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin created the richly imagined world of Orsinia. The provocative novel Malafrena is set in the 1820s, as Orsinia, a small principality of the Habsburg Empire, was swept up in currents of revolution and nationalism. Included also are 13 additional stories, including all those originally collected as Orsinian Tales. Rounding out the collection are three poems, or songs, which lend additional texture to the Orsinian tapestry.

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Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most celebrated writers of her generation, recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Brian Attebery, editor, is professor of English atIdaho State University and the editor of Journal ofthe Fantastic in the Arts. He edited The Norton Bookof Science Fiction (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin andKaren Joy Fowler and is the author of Stories AboutStories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014)and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002),among other books.