At seventeen, Parvin Blackwater only has one year left to live. She has a clock that counts down to the second the time she has left alive. But she is illegally sharing the clock with her twin brother, so when the clock zeroes out, which one will die? When the authorities find out about sharing the clock, they cast Parvin through the Wall, which is her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about God, and about...

In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each member conforms to the rigid social system. Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria--a controversial...

Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.