Always, her stories are about people, not technologies, and it is this emphasis, as well as her accomplished prose, that makes this such a classy and valuable collection. Le Guin is the famed West Coast author of more than 20 novels. From the briefest nonhumorous story here (``The Kerastion,'' about a silent flute made of human skin) to the longest, eponymous one, Le Guin ponders the nature of art and how life should be lived. It is about a cat that has a nap, dreams of fantastical kitty things, like raining mice, is startled awake, then finds a nice human lap to snooze on. Le Guin and illustrated by S D Schindler. Yet it is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best, as she employs recurring themes and elements-cultural diversity, unlikely heroes and heroines, power's ability to corrupt, love's power to guide-and considers characters and types (women, children, the differently sexed and gendered) so often disenfranchised by other, more technologically oriented SF writers. Cat Dreams is a 2009 children's picture book by Ursula K. ``The First Contact with the Gorgonids'' and ``The Ascent of the North Face,'' the two entries that Le Guin calls ``funny stories, silly stories,'' are just that-witty, satirical and amusing. Le Guin, one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one mans dreams control the. Schrdingers Cat (1974) also appeared as: Translation. A classic science fiction novel by Ursula K. In any case, it's clear that the stories presented here show the softer side of the genre at its best. Translation: Interkom Serbian (1994) as by Ursula Legvin Translation: Intracom Italian (2003). In her introduction to this reprint collection of eight of her more recent SF stories, Le Guin (Tehanu) defends the best work of the genre as ``beautiful.'' It is critics and reviewers, she claims, who miss that beauty by emphasizing SF's role as an expositor of ideas.

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