Ursula K Le Guin
(Ursula Kroeber Le Guin)
(1929 - )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)
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)
The Daughter of Odren (2014)
Earthsea the First Four Books (omnibus) (2016)
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)
The Daughter of Odren (2014)
Earthsea the First Four Books (omnibus) (2016)
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)
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 (1997)
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
The Catwings Collection (omnibus) (2003)
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 (1997)
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
The Catwings Collection (omnibus) (2003)
Unreal and the Real
1. Where on Earth (2012)
2. Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012)
The Unreal and the Real (2016)
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)
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)
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women (2010) (with Katharine Kerr, Vonda N McIntyre and Sherwood Smith)
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)
The Found and the Lost (2016)
The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (2016)
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)
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women (2010) (with Katharine Kerr, Vonda N McIntyre and Sherwood Smith)
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)
The Found and the Lost (2016)
The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (2016)
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 (1993)
Buffalo Gals (1994)
The Shobies' Story (1998)
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 (1993)
Buffalo Gals (1994)
The Shobies' Story (1998)
Picture Books
Novellas
Series contributed to
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)
Edges (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 (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)
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (2015)
Words Are My Matter (2016)
Selected Non-Fiction (2017)
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)
Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (2015)
Words Are My Matter (2016)
Selected Non-Fiction (2017)
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 (1974)
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 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 2: 1973 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (1977)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
New Dimensions 9 (1979)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
Unicorns! (1982)
Black Water (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
Top Fantasy (1984)
The Best from Universe (1984)
Top 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)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
Xanadu (1993)
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Xanadu 2 (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)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Tales in Space (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
New Legends (1995)
New Eves (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)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
Timegates (1997)
Nebula Awards 31 (1997)
Dragons (1997)
Dying for It (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
More Amazing Stories (1998)
The Unexplained (1998)
Legends (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)
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 (1974)
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 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 2: 1973 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (1977)
The Blind Geometer / The New Atlantis (1979)
New Dimensions 9 (1979)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
Unicorns! (1982)
Black Water (1983)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
Top Fantasy (1984)
The Best from Universe (1984)
Top 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)
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992)
Nebula Awards 26 (1992)
Xanadu (1993)
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1994)
Xanadu 2 (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)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Science Fiction, Science Fact, and You (1995)
Tales in Space (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
New Legends (1995)
New Eves (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)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
Timegates (1997)
Nebula Awards 31 (1997)
Dragons (1997)
Dying for It (1997)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1997)
The Best of Crank! (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998)
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
More Amazing Stories (1998)
The Unexplained (1998)
Legends (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)
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 [short story] (1969) | Nebula Awards (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 [short story] (1972) | Nebula Awards (nominee) Hugo | ||
| The Field of Vision (1973) | |||
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [short story] (1973) | Hugo | ||
| The Stars Below (1973) | |||
| The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974) | |||
| The Day Before the Revolution (1974) | Hugo (nominee) Nebula Awards | ||
| 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) | 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
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Books about Ursula K Le Guin
Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin (1993) by Elizabeth Cummins
Dancing With Dragons (1999) by Donna R White
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000) by Harold Bloom
Communities of the Heart (2000) by Warren Rochelle
Ursula K. Le Guin (2008) by Sylvia Kelso
80! (2010) by Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin
Dancing With Dragons (1999) by Donna R White
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000) by Harold Bloom
Communities of the Heart (2000) by Warren Rochelle
Ursula K. Le Guin (2008) by Sylvia Kelso
80! (2010) by Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin
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." |  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." | |
 Hard To Be a God (1973) (Noon Universe) 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. . ." |  Terrarium (1985) Scott Russell Sanders "A keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a bouyant spirit." | |
 In the Light of Sigma Draconis (1992) (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." | |
 The Dragon Path (1995) Kenneth Morris "An important, innovative fantasist, worthy to rank with MacDonald, Edison, and Tolkien." |  Resurrection Man (1995) Sean Stewart "A mmody, quirky, fascinating fantasy. Sean Stewart definitely follows his own drummer." |  Black Wine (1996) 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." | |
 Dark the Night, Wild the Sea (1999) Robert McAfee Brown "...If you believe in love beyond death, this book is for you." |  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!" |  Polyphony 1 (2002) (Polyphony, book 1) Jay Lake and Deborah Layne "...an anthology that goes way beyond 'experimental' into 'extraordinary'." | |
 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." | |
 The Secret Hour (2004) (Midnighters, book 1) Scott Westerfeld "Fast paced and spooky - a good read for the dark hours." |  Innocents Aboard (2004) Gene Wolfe "Wolfe is our Melville." |  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." | |
 The Margarets (2007) Sheri S Tepper "Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative." |  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 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." | |
 Embassytown (2011) China Miéville "A fully achieved work of art." |  This Shared Dream (2011) Kathleen Ann Goonan "A tough-minded, kind-hearted, fiercely intelligent novel." |  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." | |
 Questionable Practices (2014) Eileen Gunn "Without Eileen Gunn, life as we know it would be so dull we wouldn't recognize it." |  Lagoon (2014) Nnedi Okorafor and Nnedi Okorafor "Ther's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volume of ordinary fanatsy epic's." |  Dark Orbit (2015) Carolyn Ives Gilman "Dark Orbit is intellectually daring, brilliant imagined, strongly felt. This one's a winner." | |
 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." |  The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016) Kij Johnson "Kij Johnson has an unrivalled gift for making the unreal real and the real unreal." |