Le Guin, Ursula K

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.

Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.

When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.

Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief who seeks a special treasure.

A palace spider's extraordinary webs, which imitate paintings and carvings, take a new turn when she is thrown out into the garden.

When Sparrowhawk, the Archmage of Earthsea, returns from the dark land stripped of his magic powers, he finds refuge with the aging widow Tenar and a crippled girl child who carries an unknown destiny.

Seventeen-year-old Owen Griffiths learns to find his own way to a future in science through a friendship with a girl whose life is dedicated to music.

Alder, a sorcerer and pot mender who is being haunted by dreams in which his dead wife breaches the barrier between the living and the dead, joins with Tenar and Tenahu in an effort to mend and save Earthsea.

The story of two communities of outcasts from earth living on another planet.