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Ursula K Le Guin

(Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)

(1929 - )

About Ursula K Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin has won many Nebula and Hugo Awards, as well as a National Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Newbery Honor and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Series

Hainish
Planet of Exile (1966)
Rocannon's World (1966)
City of Illusions (1967)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
The Dispossessed (1974)
The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
Worlds of Exile and Illusion (omnibus) (1996)
aka Three Hainish Novels
The Telling (2000)

Earthsea
1. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
2. The Tombs of Atuan (1970)
3. The Farthest Shore (1972)
4. Tehanu (1990)
5. The Other Wind (2001)
The Earthsea Trilogy (omnibus) (1977)
Earthsea Revisioned (1993)
Tales from Earthsea (2001)

Adventures in Kroy
1. The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982)
2. Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983)

Catwings
1. Catwings (1988)
2. Catwings Return (1989)
3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
4. Jane On Her Own (1992)
5. Cat Dreams (2009)
Tales of the Catwings (1996)
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)

Chronicles of the Western Shore
1. Gifts (2004)
2. Voices (2006)
3. Powers (2007)

Novels

The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976)
aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else
The Eye of the Heron (1978)
Malafrena (1979)
The Beginning Place (1980)
aka Threshold
Always Coming Home (1985)
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)
Changing Planes (2003)
Lavinia (2008)

Collections

Wild Angels (poems) (1974)
Orsinian Tales (1975)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
Walking in Cornwall (poems) (1976)
Hard Words: And Other Poems (poems) (1981)
The Compass Rose (1982)
In the Red Zone (poems) (1983)
Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems (poems) (1987)
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)
The Visionary, Wonders Hidden (1988) (with Scott Russell Sanders)
The Earthsea Quartet (1993)
Blue Moon over Thurman Street (poems) (1993)
Going Out With Peacocks: And Other Poems (poems) (1994)
Science Fiction Stories (1994)
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
Unlocking the Air: And Other Stories (1996)
Sixty Odd: New Poems (poems) (1999)
The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories (2002)
Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems (poems) (2006)

Chapbooks

The Water Is Wide (1976)
Leese Webster (1979)
Gwilan's Harp (1981)
Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983)
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (1984)
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1991)
Nine Lives (1992)
Buffalo Gals: Won't You Come Out Tonight (1994)
The Shobies' Story (1998)

Picture Books

A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988)
Fire and Stone (1989)
Fish Soup (1992)
Tom Mouse (2002)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976)

Anthologies edited

Edges: Thirteen New Tales From The Borderlands Of The Imagination (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
Interfaces (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993) (with Brian Attebery)

Non fiction

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1979)
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (1984)
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1989)
The Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range (1989)
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
Cheek by Jowl (2009)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)

Anthologies containing stories by Ursula K Le Guin

Short stories

	An die Musik (1961)
	April in Paris (1962)
	Darkness Box (1963)
	The Masters (1963)
	The Rule of Names (1964)
	Semley's Necklace (1964)
	The Word of Unbinding (1964)
	Nine Lives (1969)		Nebula (nominee)
	Winter's King (1969)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Good Trip (1970)
	Things (1970)
	A Trip to the Head (1970)
	Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Word for World is Forest (1972)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	The Field of Vision (1973)
	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)		Hugo
	The Stars Below (1973)
	The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)
	The Day Before the Revolution (1974)		Nebula Hugo (nominee)
	Direction of the Road (1974)
	The Eye Altering (1974)
	Intracom (1974)
	Schrodinger's Cat (1974)
	"The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974)
	Mazes (1975)
	The New Atlantis (1975)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Barrow (1976)
	Brothers and Sisters (1976)
	Conversations at Night (1976)
	The Diary of the Rose (1976)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	The Fountains (1976)
	The House (1976)
	Ile Forest (1976)
	Imaginary Countries (1976)
	The Lady of Moge (1976)
	The Road East (1976)
	The Water is Wide (1976)
	A Week in the Country (1976)
	Gwilan's Harp (1977)
	The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb (1978)
	SQ (1978)
	Malheur County (1979)
	The Pathways of Desire (1979)		Nebula (nominee)
	Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time (1979)
	Two Delays on the Northern Line (1979)
	The White Donkey (1980)
	Small Change (1981)
	The Phoenix (1982)
	The Professor's Houses (1982)
	The Spoons in the Basement (1982)
	Sur (1982)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Wife's Story (1982)
	Horse Camp (1986)
	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo World Fantasy
	Daddy's Big Girl (1987)
	Half Past Four (1987)
	A Child Bride (1988)
	Limberlost (1989)
	The Creatures on My Mind (1990)
	The Shobies Story (1990)		Nebula (nominee)
	The Shobies' Story (1990)
	Unlocking the Air (1990)
	Newton's Sleep (1991)
	Climbing to the Moon (1992)
	Findings (1992)
	Standing Ground (1992)
	Along the River (1993)
	Dancing to Ganam (1993)
	The Poacher (1993)
	Werewomen (1993)
	Another Story (1994)
	Betrayals (1994)
	Forgiveness Day (1994)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	In the Drought (1994)
	The Matter of Seggri (1994)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo (nominee)
	Solitude (1994)		Nebula
	Unchosen Love (1994)
	Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen (1995)
	Ether OR (1995)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	Ether, OR (1995)
	A Man of the People (1995)		Hugo (nominee)
	Olders (1995)
	Sunday in Summer in Seatown (1995)
	The Wise Woman (1995)
	A Woman's Liberation (1995)		Hugo (nominee) Nebula (nominee)
	Mountain Ways (1996)		Hugo (nominee)
	Ruby on the 67 (1996)
	Dragonfly (1998)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Island of the Immortals (1998)
	Darkrose And Diamond (1999)
	Redescending (1999)

Awards

	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1970) : Winter's King
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1970) : Nine Lives
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1972) : Vaster than Empires and More Slow
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Tombs of Atuan
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1973) : The Word for World is Forest
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Word for World is Forest
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Farthest Shore
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1974) : The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
	Nebula Best Short story winner (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1975) : The Dispossessed
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
	Hugo Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1980) : The Pathways of Desire
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1981) : The Beginning Place
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1983) : Sur
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1986) : Always Coming Home
	World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1991) : The Shobies Story
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1991) : Tehanu
	Nebula Best Novel winner (1991) : Tehanu
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1995)
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Woman's Liberation
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Man of the People
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1996) : Ether OR
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1996) : Solitude
	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1997) : Mountain Ways
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1997) : A Woman's Liberation
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Dragonfly
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
	World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2002) : The Other Wind
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (2003) : The Other Wind
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (2004) : Changing Planes

Books about Ursula K Le Guin

Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (1990) by Elizabeth Cummins
Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (1998) by Donna R White
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000) by Harold Bloom
Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (2001) by Warren Rochelle

Links to other websites

ursulakleguin.com

Ursula K Le Guin recommends

The First Men in the Moon (1901) H G Wells "Why do people read science fiction? In hopes of receiving such writing as this - a ravishingly accurate vision of things unseen; an utterly unexpected yet necessary beauty."	The Man Who Japed (1956) Philip K Dick "Dick is entertaining us about reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation ... We have our homegrown Borges."	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) (Bladerunner, book 1) Philip K Dick "An elusive and incomparable artist."
Camp Concentration (1968) Thomas M Disch "A brilliant piece of science fiction..-It is a work of art and if you read it, you will be changed."	A Maze of Death (1970) Philip K Dick "The fact that what Dick is writing about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation - this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges, and...had him for twenty years."	Hard To Be a God (1973) Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky "This is a thoroughly good book...robust, imaginative, satisfying..."
Little, Big (1981) John Crowley ". . . a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy. . ."	The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982) (Valis, book 3) Philip K Dick "The stakes in this book are hope and sanity. Dick wins. It is time and past time that reviewers and critics take notice of this elusive and incomparable artist."	Terrarium (1985) Scott Russell Sanders "A keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a bouyant spirit."
In the Light of Sigma Draconis (1991) (Woman of the Iron People, book 1) Eleanor Arnason "Fascinating... Very wise and funny... Full of complicated and irresistible people, some of them human."	Ammonite (1992) Nicola Griffith "A knock-out first novel, with strong, likeable characters, a compelling story, and a very interesting take on gender."	Travellers In Magic (1994) Lisa Goldstein "Told in a quiet, easy tone, these stories carry a powerful emotional charge. They leave one with a sense of strangeness and completion of real travel of real magic."
Resurrection Man (1995) Sean Stewart "A mmody, quirky, fascinating fantasy. Sean Stewart definitely follows his own drummer."	The Dragon Path: Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris (1995) Kenneth Morris "An important, innovative fantasist, worthy to rank with MacDonald, Edison, and Tolkien."	Black Wine (1997) Candas Jane Dorsey "As brilliant as William Gibson,as complex as Gene Wolfe..."
The Dazzle of Day (1997) Molly Gloss "This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with amazing realism and keen pschology creates a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human future - a triumph of the imagination."	Flesh and Gold (1998) (Flesh and Gold, book 1) Phyllis Gotlieb "Sex, violence, intricate plotting, light-speed pacing, an amazing variety of aliens, touches of Philip K Dick's sardonic humor, and Cordwainer Smith's obstinate idealism make this novel dazzling."	When the Horses Came (1999) (Horse Catchers, book 1) Amanda Cockrell "A novel of magic realism."
Children of the Horse (2000) (Horse Catchers, book 2) Amanda Cockrell "Satisfying ... Humane novels of character and manners."	Polyphony 1 (2002) Jay Lake and Deborah Layne "...an anthology that goes way beyond 'experimental' into 'extraordinary'."	Making A Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers (2002) Carolyn See "If everyone who wants to be a writer would read this book there would be many more good writers, many more happy writers, and editors would be so overwhelmed by sweetness they would accept many more good books. So what are you waiting for? Read it!"
Roma Eterna (2003) Robert Silverberg "Probably the most intelligent science fiction writer in America."	Carlucci (2003) ( Lt. Frank Carlucci) Richard Paul Russo "Multiply everything sad sordid and hopelessly romantic about the City by a factor of ten, and you've got Richard Paul Russo's San Francisco of the mid-twenty-first century."	The Book of Flying (2004) Keith Miller "Original in concept and elegant in language."
Perfect Circle (2004) Sean Stewart "Sean Stewart definitely follows his own drummer."	The Secret Hour (2004) (Midnighters, book 1) Scott Westerfeld "Fast paced and spooky - a good read for the dark hours."	Innocents Aboard: New Fantasy Stories (2004) Gene Wolfe "Wolfe is our Melville."
Listening At the Gate (2006) (Seeker Chronicles) Betsy James "Tightly plotted, tautly written, bursting with passion and poetry. Listening At the Gate will transport you to a world both hauntingly familiar and utterly new - hope, and wild adventure."	Crazy Love (2008) Leslie What "If unbearable guilt makes you wish to suffer vicariously, and professionally, for others; if you suddenly find yourself the father of thousands and thousands of children; if your ambition is to occupy the Chair of Hermit Studies at the University of Oregon, or to be a ghost in a hot-air balloon, or if you have considered wearing a gorilla mask while having an abortion - CRAZY LOVE is your operating manual. These seventeen achingly funny and hilariously sad stories will give you invaluable advice on how to love, how to be crazy, how to be human."

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