Darkness Box [short story]
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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This is the first story I ever got paid for; the second story I ever got published; and maybe the thirtieth or fortieth story I wrote. I had been writing poetry and fiction ever since my brother Ted, tired of having an illiterate five-year-old sister around, taught me to read. At about twenty I began sending things off to publishers. Some of the poetry got printed, but I didn't get systematic about sending out the fiction till I was getting on to thirty. It kept systematically coming back. show more "April in Paris" was the first "genre" piece-recognizably fantasy or science fiction-that I had written since 1942, when I wrote an Origin-of-Life-on-Earth story for Astounding, which for some inconceivable reason rejected it (I never did synch with John Campbell). At age twelve I was very pleased to get a genuine printed rejection slip, but by age thirty-two I was very pleased to get a check. "Professionalism" is no virtue; a professional is simply one who gets paid for doing what an amateur does for love. But in a money economy, the fact of being paid means your work is going to be circulated, is going to be read; it's the means to communication, which is the artist's goal. Cele Goldsmith Lalli, who bought this story in 1962, was as enterprising and perceptive an editor as the science fiction magazines have ever had, and I am grateful to her for opening the door to me. show lessTags
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Soixante-dix nouvelles et poèmes de Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Michaël Moorcock, H.G. Wells, Yves et Ada Remy, Poul Anderson, Dean R. Koontz, Marion Zimmer Bradley,Tanith Lee, Tolkien, etc. rassemblés dans cinq grandes parties : Le Manoir des roses, La Citadelle écarlate, La Cathédrale de sang, La Dame des crânes et Le Monde des chimères. Sommaire complet.
Quatrième de couverture : De ses racines qui plongent au coeur des plus anciennes traditions orales à ess derniers avatars, ce sont tous les courants de la fantasy qui sont représentés ici, en cinq parties et soixante-dix textes. De la tendresse à la violence, du baroque au comique, du rêve au show more cauchemar, dieux, elfes, magiciens, barbares et guerriers, savants et sorciers ou simples humains vous entraînent vers des terres inconnues au travers de paysages intérieurs jusqu'au fond tourmenté de l'inconscient. show less
Quatrième de couverture : De ses racines qui plongent au coeur des plus anciennes traditions orales à ess derniers avatars, ce sont tous les courants de la fantasy qui sont représentés ici, en cinq parties et soixante-dix textes. De la tendresse à la violence, du baroque au comique, du rêve au show more cauchemar, dieux, elfes, magiciens, barbares et guerriers, savants et sorciers ou simples humains vous entraînent vers des terres inconnues au travers de paysages intérieurs jusqu'au fond tourmenté de l'inconscient. show less
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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married show more Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Darkness Box [short story]
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- Darkness Box [short story]
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- 1963-11
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- Dicky; Prinz Rikard
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- Über den Sand am Strand des Meeres wanderte ein kleiner Junge, ohne Fußabdrücke zu hinterlassen.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)»Dann ist es der Mühe wert«, erwiderte der junge Mann, öffnete die Tür und schritt, seinen Schatten hinter sich, hinaus in den Tumult und die Panik der sonnenhellen Säle.
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