The Stars Below
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Stars Below" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.Tags
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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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- Canonical title*
- Die Sterne unten [Kurzgeschichte]
- Original title
- The Stars Below [short story]
- Original publication date
- 197-04
- People/Characters*
- Guennar; Bord; Per; Hanno; Bran
- First words*
- Das Haus und die Nebengebäude aus Holz fingen sofort Feuer, flammten auf, brannten nieder, die Kuppel aber, aus Putzträger und Putz über einer Rotunde aus Backsteinen erbaut, wollte nicht brennen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)In einem Fuß Tiefe, unter der Quarzdecke, stießen sie auf Silbererz; und darunter – jetzt arbeiteten alle acht daran – legten die Spitzhacken reines Silber frei, dessen Adern, Verästelungen, Knoten und Schlingen zwischen den zerbrochenen Kristallen in dem aufgeschlagenen Fels leuchteten wie Sterne und Sterngruppen, tief und immer tiefer, ohne Ende, das Licht.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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