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	chuza! / perfil do usuario: orsinia
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	chuza.org /user.php?login=orsinia&view=history (714 words)

	Orsinian Tales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The setting is a fictional Eastern European country, at different periods in time ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1960s.
		In view of clues in the text, an affinity of place names and a number of particular tales, it is likely that Hungary was a large part of the inspiration for Orsinia.
		The cycle was extended by the story "Unlocking the Air", anthologised in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996), which is set at the time of the downfall of Communism in Orsinia – and the rest of Eastern Europe – in the winter of 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orsinian_Tales (220 words)

	The Syracuse/Geneva Chantry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Orsinia is a hilly-to-mountainous area, a horizon realm shaped somewhat like a figure 8, bisected at the narrow point by a large lake, lake Tlon, which is a reflection of the earthly lakes Geneva and Oneida.
		The residents of Orsinia are about forty people, most of whom descend from a small, insignificant trans-alpine clan in the 1600s, who carry in their blood a tendency to accidentally show up in Orsinia, sooner or later.
		Orsinia enjoys a variety of other reliable mystic technologies including a wide variety of specialized domesticated animals found nowhere on earth, cooking pentacles (engraved disks that output heat for cooking), musical pentacles (similar engraved disks that output sound), hunting wands, and a variety of similar items.
	www.auterytech.com /enantiodromos/game2.html (920 words)

	Chapter 5: Early Works
		In science-fictional terms, Orsinia is located in a universe with a history identical to that of ours, with the exception of the existence of a country on our Earth called Orsinia.
		Orsinia differs from More's Utopia and its relatives in that Le Guin is interested in it primarily for itself, not so much as a place to hold up to our world the "mirror" of satire.
		First, for introducing Ursula's country, Orsinia (with its play on Le Guin's given name); second, for postulating (very quietly) a world without a transcendent god; third, for showing at the beginning of her career a genius for handling complex issues in a lucid, simple style.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/earlyworks.htm (6760 words)

	James W. Bittner - Persuading Us to Rejoice and Teaching Us How to Praise: Le Guin's
		Orsinia may have come under Hapsburg domination in the sixteenth century (Isabella, "the Lady of Moge," has a Spanish-sounding name) and was probably threatened by the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
		Written in 1960, after Le Guin had been exploring Orsinia in novels and tales for a decade, and before she turned to stories that fit publishers' categories, "Imaginary Countries" is a tale in which Le Guin returned to the myths that informed her childhood play and nourished her imagination.
		Le Guin is likely referring to Orsinia's brief period of political independence in "A Week in the Country" when she says that Stefan Fabbre, born in 1939, was "born in jail" (116); Stefan's grandfather, the Stefan Fabbre of "Brothers and Sisters," and his father, have "known other houses" (115).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/16/bittner16art.htm (13478 words)

	Weltschmerz' Europa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Though the characters bring with them the ghosts of war, racism, fascism, and ethnic cleansing - these are not events that will be acted out at the LARP, the characters have managed to escape the North.
		Protection in Orsinia - their country of refugee - is not not yet granted, and there is a very real chance it won't be granted.
		For practical reasons, all policemen are from the Russian-speaking minority in Orsinia.
	weltschmerz.laiv.org /Europa/char.htm (658 words)

	Article Abstracts: #51 (Science Fiction by Women)
		Abstract.--Ursula K. Le Guin's latest collection of non-fiction, Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989), appears to be a record of change, of the birth of a more outspoken, self-critical womanself.
		However, a reconsideration of Le Guin's fiction about her four primary worlds (Orsinia, Earthsea, the Hainish universe, and the future American West Coast) reveals that this woman author who has attached such significance to the connection between place and person--this land-lady--has been undergoing changes of mind all along.
		Furthermore, these changes are particularly evident in the fiction about her home--the fiction about Orsinia, the Central European home of her parents' families, and the fiction about the future West Coast where she actually resides.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/abstracts/a51.htm (1648 words)

	RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
		Have come across of what I think is a LARP event in Norway.
		Our second slice of the world is Europa, an asylum reception centre in Orsinia - a peaceful, wealthy, fictional state somewhere on the Balkans.
		The Nordic countries are left wrecked and traumatised by the "Nordic conflicts" - a series of wars worse than those that hit former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.
	www.rpg.net /forums/phorum/pf/read.php?f=80&t=122&a=1& (376 words)

	Review of Urusula K. Le Guin's Orsinian Tales (non-SF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The common theme of the stories is how people continue being people while living under tyranny.
		The stories are all set in (or from) an unnamed country somewhere in Central Europe (unless I missed it somewhere, "Orsinia" is a name that appears only on the book jacket, not in the stories).
		At the end of each story is a year, fixing the tale in time.
	members.aol.com /dmchess/www/orsinian.html (656 words)

	Novel page 1
		They all take place in the same imaginary Central European country but at different periods of history.
		The novel itself is set in this imaginary country, Orsinia.
		This writer often writes a short story and then uses it as the nucleus of a full scale novel and has published several other collections of stories, mostly SF (see Genres).
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/literature/novel1.html (692 words)

	Chapter 4: Chronology
		Le Guin is the invited respondent for a very high-powered international symposium on narrative at the University of Chicago.
		As Elizabeth Cummins stresses, it is one of Le Guin's four great settings: Orsinia, the Hainish Universe (human space from our near future to some five millennia in the future), Earthsea (in Earth's fantasy past), and the American West Coast (Understanding passim).
		Orsinia is also a very personal place for Le Guin, the location of her first stories and some of her later ones, and a place playing on her name: Ursa (she-bear) / Ursula (little she-bear) / Orsino (bearish) / Orsinia (see Bittner [29], 131 n.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/chronology.htm (4467 words)

	Books \| Magical history tour
		The problem, of course, was not the destination but the place of origin.
		You couldn't get there, in fact, from London or Moscow; but from Ruritania, or Orsinia, or the Invisible Cities, it was simply a matter of finding the right train.
		Now, after 20 years, Morris has returned to Hav, and enhanced, deepened and marvellously perplexed her guidebook by the addition of a final section called "Hav of the Myrmidons".
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329495527-110738,00.html (1323 words)

	Salon.com People \| Ursula K. Le Guin
		Le Guin wrote after the children went to bed and, when they got older, during their school hours, but initially her work met with little acceptance.
		Her poems were regularly published, but she couldn't find a market for her short stories or fantastical historical novels set in a fictional analogue of Czechoslovakia, a country she named Orsinia.
		She describes her earliest work as being "just a bit off," containing some oddity or fantasy element that prevented editors from labeling her work, putting it in a literary or genre box.
	archive.salon.com /people/bc/2001/01/23/le_guin/print.html (2779 words)

	Amazon.ca: Orsinian Tales: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ms Le Guin is a renowned sci-fi and fantasy writer, winner of several Hugo and Nebula Awards, author of the remarkable "Left Hand of Darkness" (1969) and the "Earthsea" cycle (1970 - 2001).
		With "Orsinian Tales" (1976) she surprises the reader with a collection of short stories placed in an imaginary country: Orsinia.
		This country has all the traits of a Central European one (just as the fictional Ruritania of "Prisoner of Zenda").
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0061056065 (520 words)

	A Brief History of the Order
		It was alleged that Leander and Luscinia, aided by Luscinia's parens Xyris at Ultorum, had been collecting Helde's seed as part of a plan to impregnate women across Tympania with the offspring of the witch-king.
		No sooner had the details of this conspiracy begun to emerge than Leander panicked and fled the Tribunal, disappearing into the marshes of Orsinia.
		He was immediately found guilty in absentia, and Nexus left with an escort of Savacion magi to track him down, claiming that as Leander's sigil-holder, he was bound by filial obligation to take care of the matter personally.
	knownworld.theennead.com /things/book/print/66 (16010 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		A guide to Le Guin’s work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worlds—Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West coast.
		A guide to Le Guin’s work, focusing on fiction set in four principal worlds — Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West Coast.
		This is a 1992 book not seen until now.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b119.html (2468 words)

	8.15 The Rise of Cristoferean Interventionism \| things known
		Under the direction of Caesius and Contumacia, architects of the "Cristoferean Revolution," the Cristofereans of Annalum were to become increasingly interventionist throughout the fourth century.
		In 305, Annalum initiated the practice of sending members of House Cristofer to the aid of failing covenants when it suggested that the Antrum Cristoferean Cinifer ought travel to Orsinia to help revive the moribund traditionalist covenant Trans Paludem.
		This form of aid to ailing covenants was soon to become standard practice.
	knownworld.theennead.com /things/node/172 (1237 words)

	Weltschmerz' Europa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Weltschmerz is an Oslo-based network of artists and LARP organisers who aim at bringing you intense LARP experiences from our own world, now.
		Having applied for political asylum in Orsinia, they spend their days awaiting an answer at the isolated reception centre, sharing the fleeting dreams and real nightmares of Europe.
		You can read more about Europa in the vision and facts sections.
	weltschmerz.laiv.org /Europa/gml_index.htm (544 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin: Answers to a Questionnaire (FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions)
		Stories and books have grown directly out of places that I happened to visit (my first trip to the Eastern Oregon desert led straight to The Tombs of Atuan.) If there is science in a science-fiction story I'm writing and I need to check my facts, I do.
		But most of my research is into the geography of my own imagination, where Earthsea, and Gethen, and Orsinia, and all my other subworlds are.
		With one story or novel, this may be five false starts and six or eight or ten full rewrites, beginning to end.
	www.ursulakleguin.com /faq_questionnaire5_01.html (1923 words)

	Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ever since Ursula K. Le Guin's first novel appeared as one half of an Ace Double paperback in 1966, she has become one of the most important writers in the field of science fiction.
		This book introduces the fiction of Le Guin by examining the four worlds she has created in her major novels and novellas from 1968 to 1986—Earthsea, the Hainish planets, Orsinia, and the future West Coast.
		An award-winning science fictionist and fantasist, Le Guin's works include Rocannon's World, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, The Dispossessed, Orsinian Tales, and numerous others.
	www.sc.edu /uscpress/1993older/9869.html (240 words)

	Infinitas Bookshop: Orsinian Tales: Stories
		Navigate back from this page using the Back button of the web browser for faster results.
		The universal need for human freedom and love and the horrors of government oppression are recurring themes in this collection of eleven haunting pieces of short fiction, all set in the imaginary Eastern European country of Orsinia.
		If you contact the shop, we may be able to upload an image.
	www.infinitas.com.au /Product.php?bar=9780060763435 (92 words)

	ursula le guin interview - for zone-sf.com
		I gave up much pretence of continuity between worlds or books long ago.
		As for Orsinia, I have not been able to go back there since 1990, though I have tried several times.
		What effect do you think increasing academic interest is having on the field of science fiction?
	www.zone-sf.com /ukleguin.html (1277 words)

	Horizon: Visa for Avalon
		You could try flipping through back to front though.
		Or go read her Orsinia stories instead, I dunno.
		Posted by: Martha Bridegam at March 22, 2005 09:51 AM
	horizon.bloghouse.net /archives/000458.html (184 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Biographic Data: Daughter of anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber and author Theodora Kroeber.
		Series Orsinia 1 Orsinian Tales (1976) 2 Malafrena (1979) Earthsea Cycle 1 A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) [jvn] 2 The Tombs of Atuan (1971) [jvn] 3 3The Farthest Shore (1972) [jvn] 4 Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990) Hainish Planet of Exile (1966) Rocannon's World (1966) - Based on "The Dowry of Angyar".
		City of Illusions (1967) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) The Word For World Is Forest (1972) - Chapter book.
	zaramis.nu /anders/author/KL/Ursula_K_LeGuin.htm (288 words)

	URSULA K
		She kept writing and watching her drawers fill up with manuscripts and rejection slips.
		In ten years she had written, aside from poetry, five novels, some about a fantasy country in Central Europe named Orsinia, but none was accepted for publication.
		It became for her a matter of "publish or perish." Her fantasies did not fit any existing category, and if she wanted to publish she would have to find an acceptable form.
	www.utm.edu /~lalexand/LeGuin_interview.htm (5476 words)

	[No title]
		The psychiatrist to whom he turns for help recognizes that George has unusual powers and employs his dreams to solve problems of environment, population, and politics.
		Malafrena RC 16781 read by John MacDonald 3 cassettes In the early nineteenth century in the imaginary land of Orsinia, Itale Sorde leaves his beloved ancestral home at Malafrena for the excitement of Krasnoy, a big city.
		There, as an impoverished radical journalist, he has an affair with a beautiful baroness and learns about life and love.
	www.loc.gov /nls/bibliographies/published/scifi/prolific.txt (21548 words)

	Wilson & Alroy on High Fantasy Novels
		This one's basically a coming of age story too, but it's not as compelling because the young prince is sort of a bozo.
		This is a collection of otherwise unrelated short stories that all are set in a vaguely located, make-believe Eastern European country (the word "Orsinia" appears nowhere within the book).
		Otherwise, they're not fantasy in any sense, and certainly not high fantasy.
	www.warr.org /highfantasy.html (8982 words)

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