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Ursula K Le Guin

(Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)

(1929 - 2018)

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)

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)

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)

Orsinia
   Orsinian Tales (1975)
   Malafrena (1979)
   The Complete Orsinia (2016)
   Orsinia (2017)

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)
   Tales of the Catwings (1996)
   More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
   5. Cat Dreams (2009)

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

Unreal and the Real
   1. Where on Earth (2012)
   2. Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012)
   The Unreal and the Real (2016)

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)

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)

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)

Chapbooks

   The Water Is Wide (1976)
   Leese Webster (1979)
   Gwilan's Harp (1981)
   Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983)
   The Visionary (1984)
   Nine Lives (1992)
   The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1992)
   Buffalo Gals (1994)
   The Shobies' Story (1998)

Picture Books

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

Novellas and Short Stories

Dangerous People (2019)

Non fiction

   From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
   Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
   The Language of the Night (1979)
   Steering the Craft (1984)
   Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
   The Way of the Water's Going (1989)
   The Wave in the Mind (2004)
   Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)
   Cheek by Jowl (2009)
   The World Split Open (2014) (with Margaret Atwood, Edward P Jones, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner)
   Brain Nutrition (2014)
   Words Are My Matter (2016)
   No Time to Spare (2017)
   Conversations on Writing (2018) (with David Naimon)
   The Last Interview (2019)

Omnibus editions

Rocannon's World / The Kar-Chee Reign (1966) (with Avram Davidson)
Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (2024)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
11. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976)

Outspoken Authors
6. The Wild Girls (2011)

Anthologies containing stories by Ursula K Le Guin

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

Ursula K Le Guin recommends

Interlibrary Loan (2020)
(Borrowed Man, book 2)
Gene Wolfe
"Wolfe is our Melville."

The Little Animals (2019)
Sarah Tolmie
"...vibrant with life and activity, fascinating in its strangeness and its familiarity."

Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories (2018)
Vandana Singh
"A most promising and original young writer."

Akata Warrior (2017)
(Akata Witch, book 2)
Nnedi Okorafor
"There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics."

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)
Kij Johnson
"Kij Johnson has an unrivalled gift for making the unreal real and the real unreal."

The Beautiful Bureaucrat (2015)
Helen Phillips
"Told with the light touch of a Calvino and the warm heart of a Saramago, this brief fable-novel is funny, sad, scary, and beautiful. I love it."

Dark Orbit (2015)
Carolyn Ives Gilman
"Dark Orbit is intellectually daring, brilliant imagined, strongly felt. This one's a winner."

Questionable Practices (2014)
Eileen Gunn
"Without Eileen Gunn, life as we know it would be so dull we wouldn't recognize it."

The Days of the Deer (2013)
(Saga of the Borderlands, book 1)
Liliana Bodoc
"When asked who I admire within my genre, I can only think of one name: Liliana Bodoc."

This Shared Dream (2011)
(Dance Family, book 2)
Kathleen Ann Goonan
"A tough-minded, kind-hearted, fiercely intelligent novel."

Embassytown (2011)
China Miéville
"A fully achieved work of art."

The Half-Made World (2010)
(Half-Made World, book 1)
Felix Gilman
"Vivid and accurate prose, a gripping imagainative story, a terrifically inventive setting, a hard-bitten, indestructable hero, and an intelligent, fully adult heroine - we haven't had a science fiction novel like this for some time."

Mammoths of the Great Plains (2010)
Eleanor Arnason
"A writer of powerful imagination and emotion..."

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."

The Margarets (2007)
Sheri S Tepper
"Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative."

Listening At the Gate (2006)
(Seeker Chronicles, book 3)
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."

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."

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."

Roma Eterna (2003)
Robert Silverberg
"Probably the most intelligent science fiction writer in America."

Polyphony 1 (2002)
(Polyphony, book 1)
Jay Lake and Deborah Layne
"...an anthology that goes way beyond 'experimental' into 'extraordinary'."

Making A Literary Life (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!"

Children of the Horse (2000)
(Horse Catchers, book 2)
Amanda Cockrell
"Satisfying ... Humane novels of character and manners."

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."

Dark the Night, Wild the Sea (1998)
Robert McAfee Brown
"...If you believe in love beyond death, this book is for you."

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."

Black Wine (1996)
Candas Jane Dorsey
"As brilliant as William Gibson,as complex as Gene Wolfe..."

The Dragon Path (1995)
Kenneth Morris
"An important, innovative fantasist, worthy to rank with MacDonald, Edison, and Tolkien."

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."

Ammonite (1992)
Nicola Griffith
"A knock-out first novel, with strong, likeable characters, a compelling story, and a very interesting take on gender."

Terrarium (1985)
Scott Russell Sanders
"A keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a bouyant spirit."

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."

Little, Big (1981)
John Crowley
". . . a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy. . ."

Hard To Be a God (1973)
(Noon Universe)
Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
"This is a thoroughly good book...robust, imaginative, satisfying..."

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."

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."

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