Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Amerikansk forfatterinde som er en af de mest kendte og roste SF og fantasy forfattere. I fantasy er hun mest kendt for "Earthsea" serien, som startede med "A Wizard of Earthsea" I 1968. Inden for få år fuldte to bind til og alle troede at det var det, indtil den fjerde bog udkom I 1990. Desuden skrev hun en ny novelle I serien til Robert Silverbergs fantasy antologi "Legends" Inden for SF er hun mest kendt for sine "Hainish" bøger. "The Left Hand of Darkness" vandt både Hugo og Nebula prisen, og det samme gjorde "The Dispossessed." Hendes seneste bog I universet hed "Four Ways to Forgiveness".