A city whose happiness depends on one child kept in a cellar, and the few citizens who leave rather than accept the terms.
A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.
An envoy on a planet where people have no fixed sex; Le Guin's thought experiment.
Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.
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