Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024
The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced the shortlist for the third annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is an annual prize given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction. The award is intended to recognize those writers Le Guin spoke of in her 2014 National Book Awards speech—”realists of a larger reality, who can imagine real grounds for hope and see alternatives to how we live now.”
The ten books on the shortlist were chosen by the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation after a public nomination process. The ultimate winner will be chosen by a panel of judges—Margaret Atwood, Omar El Akkad, Megan Giddings, Ken Liu, and Carmen Maria Machado—and announced on October 21st, Le Guin’s birthday.
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over asks how much of yourself can you lose before you are lost…and then what happens? The heroine of this haunting, spare novel is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, our undead narrator notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. She has forgo ...Show more
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below. A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, cir ...Show more
The Library of Broken Worlds by Alaya Dawn Johnson
29.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, epic tale of oppression and the cost of peace, where stories hide within other stories, and narrative has the power to heal... or to burn everything in its path.In the winding underground tunnels of the Library, the great celestial peacekeeper of ...Show more
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
34.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soake ...Show more
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
32.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
'This book is astoundingly good. An explosive and extraordinary story that I couldn't stop reading and will never forget' Everina Maxwell, author of Winter's OrbitAll her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of ...Show more
Mammoths at the Gate by Nghi Vo
45.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Singing Hills Cycle Ser.
The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series!"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."--NPR on The Empress of Salt and FortuneThe wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has ...Show more
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The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed
39.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
The paperback release of 2024's stunning meditation on war and violence by an award-winning author. The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tort ...Show more
Those Beyond the Wall - A Novel by Micaiah Johnson
59.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse--from the Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds."A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at turns ferocious and poetic--and som ...Show more
The Skin and Its Girl - A Novel by Sarah Cypher
42.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great-aunt's secrets in this "enchanting, memorable" (Bustle) debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage. "As beautifully detailed as a piece of Palestinian embroidery, this bold, vivid novel will speak to readers ...Show more
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