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Ursula K Le Guin


(Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)
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Ursula Le Guin won many awards, including 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.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy
 
Series
Wind's Twelve Quarters
   April in Paris (1962)
   Darkness Box (1963)
   The Masters (1963)
   Semley's Necklace (1964)
   The Rule of Names (1964)
   The Word of Unbinding (1964)
   Winter's King (1969)
   A Trip to the Head (1970)
   The Good Trip (1970)
   Things (1970)
   Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971)
   The Field of Vision (1973)
   The Stars Below (1973)
   Direction of the Road (1974)
   The Day Before the Revolution (1974)
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Hainish Cycle
   1. Rocannon's World (1966)
   2. Planet of Exile (1966)
   3. City of Illusions (1967)
   4. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
   5. The Dispossessed (1974)
   6. The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
   7. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
   8. The Telling (2000)
   The Hainish Novels and Stories (2017)
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Earthsea
   1. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
   2. The Tombs of Atuan (1970)
   3. The Farthest Shore (1972)
   4. Tehanu (1990)
   Earthsea Revisioned (1993)
   5. Tales from Earthsea (2001)
   6. The Other Wind (2001)
   6.5. The Daughter of Odren (2014)
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Orsinia
   Orsinian Tales (1975)
   Malafrena (1979)
   The Complete Orsinia (2016)
   Orsinia (2017)
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Catwings
   1. Catwings (1988)
   2. Catwings Return (1989)
   3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
   4. Jane On Her Own (1992)
   Tales of the Catwings (1996)
   More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
   5. Cat Dreams (2009)
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Chronicles of the Western Shore
   1. Gifts (2004)
   2. Voices (2006)
   3. Powers (2007)
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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)
   The Beginning Place (1980)
     aka Threshold
   Always Coming Home (1985)
   Searoad (1991)
   A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)
   Lavinia (2008)
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Collections
   Wild Angels (poems) (1975)
   The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)
   Walking in Cornwall (poems) (1976)
   Hard Words (poems) (1981)
   The Compass Rose (1982)
   In the Red Zone (poems) (1983)
   Wild Oats and Fireweed (poems) (1988)
   Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1988)
   The Visionary, Wonders Hidden (1988) (with Scott Russell Sanders)
   The Earthsea Quartet (1993)
   Blue Moon over Thurman Street (poems) (1993)
   Science Fiction Stories (1994)
   Going Out With Peacocks (poems) (1994)
   A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
   Unlocking the Air (1996)
   Sixty Odd (poems) (1999)
   The Birthday of the World (2002)
   Incredible Good Fortune (poems) (2006)
   Out Here (poems) (2010)
   Finding My Elegy (poems) (2012)
   Changing Planes (2014)
   The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose (2015)
   Late in the Day: Poems 2010 - 2014 (poems) (2015)
   Poems from the Book of Hours (poems) (2016) (with Babette Deutsch and Rainer Maria Rilke)
   The Found and the Lost (2016)
   The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (2016)
   Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017)
   So Far, So Good (poems) (2018)
   Collected Poems (poems) (2023)
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Anthologies edited
   The Altered I (1978) (with Lee Harding)
   Edges (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
   Interfaces (1980) (with Virginia Kidd)
   The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993) (with Brian Attebery)
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Chapbooks
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Picture Books
   A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988)
   Fire and Stone (1989)
   Fish Soup (1992)
   Tom Mouse (2002)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Dangerous People (2019)
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Non fiction
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Omnibus editions
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Series contributed to
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Anthologies containing stories by Ursula K Le Guin
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
Nebula Award Stories 5 (1970)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year (1972)
Again Dangerous Visions Book 1 (1973)
The Golden Road (1973)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 (1974)
Fellowship of the Stars (1974)
Modern Science Fiction (1974)
The Best from Galaxy, Volume III (1975)
Universe 5 (1975)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 4 (1975)
Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975)
The Black Magic Omnibus Volume 1 (1976)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 (1976)
The Hugo Winners: Volume 3, Part 2 (1977)
The Hugo Winners: Volume 3, Part 3 (1977)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
New Dimensions 9 (1979)
Unicorns! (1982)
Black Water (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
Top Fantasy (1984)
Top Science Fiction (1984)
The Best from Universe (1984)
The Third Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
Afterlives (1986)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1987)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection (1988)
A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989 (1990)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
Full Spectrum 3 (1991)
Amazing Stories (1991)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Xanadu (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Horses! (1994)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Future Primitive (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Blue Motel (1994)
New Eves (1994)
Xanadu 2 (1994)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Tales in Space (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
New Legends (1995)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection (1995)
Killing Me Softly (1995)
Virtually Now (1996)
The Wizards of Odd (1996)
Nebula Awards 30 (1996)
Year's Best SF (1996)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Wild Women (1997)
Timegates (1997)
Nebula Awards 31 (1997)
Dragons (1997)
Dying for It (1997)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998)
     aka The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
The Unexplained (1998)
Legends (1998)
More Amazing Stories (1998)
Far Horizons (1999)
Legends 3 (2000)
Explorers (2000)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000)
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (2000)
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Short stories
An die Musik (1961)
Nine Lives [short story] (1969)Nebula Awards (nominee)
The Word for World is Forest [short story] (1972)Nebula Awards (nominee)
Hugo
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [short story] (1973)Hugo
The Author of the Acacia Seeds (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)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (nominee)
The Barrow (1976)
Brothers and Sisters (1976)
Conversations at Night (1976)
The Diary of the Rose (1976)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (1976)
A Week in the Country (1976)
Gwilan's Harp [short story] (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 Awards (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 Awards (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 Awards (nominee)
The Shobies' Story [short story] (1990)
Unlocking the Air [short story] (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)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (nominee)
In the Drought (1994)
The Matter of Seggri (1994)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula Awards (nominee)
Solitude (1994)Nebula Awards
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)
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 Awards (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 Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1970) : Winter's King
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1970) : The Left Hand of Darkness
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1970) : Nine Lives [short story]
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1972) : Vaster than Empires and More Slow
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1972) : The Tombs of Atuan
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Lathe of Heaven
Hugo Best Novella winner (1973) : The Word for World is Forest [short story]
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1973) : The Farthest Shore
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1973) : The Word for World is Forest [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1974) : The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [short story]
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
Hugo Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1975) : The Dispossessed
Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1975) : The Day Before the Revolution
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1975) : The Dispossessed
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1976) : The New Atlantis
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1977) : The Diary of the Rose
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1980) : The Pathways of Desire
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1981) : The Beginning Place
Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1983) : Sur
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book nominee (1985) : Always Coming Home
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1986) : Always Coming Home
Hugo Best Novellette winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1988) : Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1991) : Tehanu
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1991) : The Shobies Story
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (1991) : Tehanu
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1995) : Forgiveness Day
Nebula Awards Best Novellette nominee (1995) : The Matter of Seggri
World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1995)
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Man of the People
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1996) : A Woman's Liberation
Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1996) : Solitude
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1996) : Ether, OR
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1997) : Mountain Ways
Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1997) : A Woman's Liberation
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1997) : Unlocking the Air: And Other Stories
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Dragonfly
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Other Wind
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (2002) : The Other Wind
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (2003) : The Other Wind
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (2009) : Lavinia
Nebula Awards Best Novel winner (2009) : Powers


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