Fictionwise: Excellence in eBooks: Best-Selling Titles by Ursula K. Le Guin http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles By Ursula K. Le Guin 1) Vaster than Empires and More Slow http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook934.htm [A story of the "Hainish" series.] A volunteer group of humans and aliens embark on an exploratory mission to a distant planet where they will run environmental tests as preparation for colonization. One of the ship's crew of 10 is a human empath whose role as ship's Sensor is to detect any presence of intelligent life, but upon their arrival they find vast forests and open fields of grasses, without animals of any kind ... not even an insect. Unable to stand the irritatating emotional excreta of his fellow crewmates, the empath sets up an outpost to do a species count on the local flora, but when he fails to report in on the radio, the others suspect the native vegetation may not be as harmless as it seems. 2) The Day Before the Revolution http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook881.htm This Nebula and Locus Award winner focuses on the bittersweet ruminations of an old woman who began a social movement in her youth, and the culmination of her life as a public figure on the day before the Revolution begins. 3) The New Atlantis http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook880.htm In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. 4) The Poacher http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook864.htm A peasant boy is foraging for mushrooms in the forest when he discovers a gigantic bramble hedge, and for the next two years he spends all his free time cutting a tunnel through its branches ... and dreaming of what he will find on the other side. When he finally breaks through, he finds an enchanted castle with all of its occupants asleep ... as if under a spell. He is especially careful not to disturb the princess, for he senses that the source of the dream he has entered is this sleeping beauty. 5) Newton's Sleep http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook902.htm On a future Earth of environmental devastation and political instability, rapidly mutating viruses have caused billions of deaths, and the future of the human race is in jeopardy. When a select group of pragmatists take residence in an orbiting habitat, the occupants begin to see visions of the unfortunates they left behind, and some fear that the environmental deprivation has bridged the gap between reality and hallucination.