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  • A NON-EUCLIDEAN VIEW OF CALIFORNIA AS A COLD PLACE TO BE by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • A NON-EUCLIDEAN VIEW OF CALIFORNIA AS A COLD PLACE TO BE by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • A NON-EUCLIDEAN VIEW OF CALIFORNIA AS A COLD PLACE TO BE by Ursula K. Le Guin

A NON-EUCLIDEAN VIEW OF CALIFORNIA AS A COLD PLACE TO BE by Ursula K. Le Guin

112 x 159mm, 58 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2026

In this refusal of futurity, Ursula K. Le Guin offers a counter-imaginary of place. She takes a non-linear journey through the stories we tell about progress and history, showing a way out of forward-oriented colonial modernity and its doctrine of technological utopias. Drawing upon Taoist philosophy and Indigenous storytelling, she advocates for anti-heroic alternatives to myths of endless growth. 

Through Le Guin's characteristically playful prose, A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be shows that how we write is inseparable from how we imagine worlds, revealing the possibilities of living differently here and now.

With an afterword by Marcus du Sautoy

Published by

Spiral House

£8.99