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The Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America, September 5, 2017, 978-1-59853-538-9, $40.00, xviii+1095pp, hc, co)     Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin · in 1 · Rocannon’s World [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Ace, 1966 expanded from “The Dowry of Angyar”, Amazing Sep ’64. 117 · Planet of Exile [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Ace, October 1966 223 · City of Illusions [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Ace, 1967 385 · The Left Hand of Darkness [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Ace, 1969 613 · The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Harper & Row, 1974 923 · Winter’s King [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Orbit 5 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1969; this is the revised 1975 version from The Wind’s Twelve Quarters which made minor changes to pronoun usage. 944 · Vaster Than Empires and More Slow [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv New Dimensions 1 ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 975 · The Day Before the Revolution [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1974 990 · Coming of Age in Karhide [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv New Legends ed. Greg Bear & Martin Greenberg, Legend, 1995 1011 · Introduction to Rocannon’s World · Ursula K. Le Guin · in Harper & Row, 1977 1015 · Introduction to Planet of Exile · Ursula K. Le Guin · in Harper & Row, 1978 1020 · Introduction to City of Illusions · Ursula K. Le Guin · in Harper & Row, 1978 1023 · Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness · Ursula K. Le Guin · in Ace, 1976 1028 · A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 2005 from The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed ed. Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, Lexington Books, 2005. 1033 · Is Gender Necessary? Redux · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 1987 1044 · Winter’s King (1969 Version) [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Orbit 5 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1969 1067 · Chronology · [uncredited] · ms 1082 · Note on the Texts · [uncredited] · ms 1086 · Notes · [uncredited] · ms

The Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume Two by Ursula K. Le Guin (Library of America, September 5, 2017, 978-1-59853-539-6, $40.00, xix+789pp, hc, co)     Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin · in 1 · The Word for World Is Forest [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Again, Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1972 107 · The Shobies’ Story [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Universe 1 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Doubleday Foundation, 1990 134 · Dancing to Ganam [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Amazing Stories September 1993 168 · Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin, HarperPrism, 1994 207 · Unchosen Love [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Amazing Stories Fall 1994 226 · Mountain Ways [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction August 1996 250 · The Matter of Seggri [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Crank! #3, Spring 1994 290 · Solitude [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1994 321 · Betrayals [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Blue Motel ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1994 353 · Forgiveness Day [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Asimov’s Science Fiction November 1994 408 · A Man of the People [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Asimov’s Science Fiction April 1995 457 · A Woman’s Liberation [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Asimov’s Science Fiction July 1995 518 · Old Music and the Slave Women [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · na Far Horizons ed. Robert Silverberg, Avon Eos, 1999 570 · Notes on Werel and Yeowe · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin, HarperPrism, 1995 588 · O Yeowe · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin, HarperPrism, 1995 589 · The Telling [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · n. Harcourt, 2000 753 · Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest · Ursula K. Le Guin · in Gollancz, 1977 758 · On Not Reading Science Fiction · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin, HarperPrism, 1994 780 · Notes on the Text · [uncredited] · ms 783 · Notes · [uncredited] · ms

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer Press, November 2012, 978-1-61873-035-0, $24.00, 333pp, hc, co)     Collection of 20 stories selected by Le Guin from previous collections; this is the second volume of two, and focuses on Le Guin’s SF and fantasy. Le Guin’s introduction discusses the difficulties of defining SF genre and the origins of the stories. Details taken from online listing. i · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin · in 1 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973 9 · Semley’s Necklace [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Amazing Stories September 1964, as “The Dowry of Angyar” 29 · Nine Lives · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv World’s Best Science Fiction: 1970 ed. Donald A. Wollheim & Terry Carr, DAW, 1970 revised from Playboy Nov ’69. 57 · Mazes · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Epoch ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Putnam, 1975 63 · The First Contact with the Gorgonids · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Omni January 1992 71 · The Shobies’ Story [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Universe 1 ed. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber, Doubleday Foundation, 1990 99 · Betrayals [Ekumen; Werel & Yeowe] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Blue Motel ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1994 133 · The Matter of Seggri [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Crank! #3, Spring 1994 175 · Solitude [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1994 205 · The Wild Girls · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2002 239 · The Fliers of Gy · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Sci Fiction November 8 2000, as “The Flyers of Gy: An Interplanetary Tale” 253 · The Silence of the Asonu · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Orion 1998, as “The Wisdom of the Asonu” 261 · The Ascent of the North Face · Ursula K. Le Guin · vi Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1983 265 · The Author of the Acacia Seeds · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fellowship of the Stars ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster, 1974, as ““The Author of the Acacia Seeds” and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics” 273 · The Wife’s Story · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row, 1982 279 · The Rule of Names [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination April 1964 291 · Small Change · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Tor Zu Den Sternen ed. Peter Wilfert, Bertelsmann, 1981 299 · The Poacher · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Xanadu ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993 315 · Sur · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row, 1982 revised from New Yorker Feb 1 ’82. 331 · She Unnames Them · Ursula K. Le Guin · vi The New Yorker January 21 1985

The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden: Audubon’s Early Years by Ursula K. Le Guin & Scott Russell Sanders--- see under The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden: Audubon’s Early Years, Capra Press, 1984.

The Wild Girls by Ursula K. Le Guin (PM Press/Outspoken Authors, May 2011, 978-1-60486-403-8, $12.00, 100pp, tp, co, cover by John Yates)     Collection of the title story (revised), two essays (one original), four poems, an interview with Le Guin conducted by Terry Bisson, and a bibliography. Details taken from online listing. 9 · The Wild Girls · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2002 57 · “Staying Awake While We Read” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar Harper’s Magazine February 2008 72 · The Next War · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm 73 · Peace Vigils · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm 74 · Variations on an Old Theme · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm 75 · The City of the Plain · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm 77 · “The Conversation of the Modest” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 83 · “A Lovely Art” · Terry Bisson · iv [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]

Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin (Small Beer Press, October 18, 2016, 978-1-61873-134-0, $24.00, iv + 316pp, hc, nf)     Details taken from online listing. · The Mind Is Still · Ursula K. Le Guin · pm The Kenyon Review Fall 1979 i · Foreword · Ursula K. Le Guin · fw 3 · The Operating Instructions · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin, Shambhala Publications, 2004 written in 2000 as a talk to a group of people interested in local literacy and literature. 7 · What It Was Like · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 9 · Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin & Jeffrey D. Smith, Tachyon, 2004 16 · “Things Not Actually Present”: On Fantasy, with a Tribute to Jorge Luis Borges · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 21 · A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 2005 from The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed ed. Laurence Davis and Peter Stillman, Lexington Books, 2005. 26 · The Beast in the Book · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 35 · Inventing Languages · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 41 · How to Read a Poem: “Gray Goose and Gander” · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 44 · On David Hensel’s Submission to the Royal Academy of Art · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 45 · On Serious Literature · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar Rosebud #40, Winter 2007 47 · Teasing Myself Out of Thought · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 51 · Living in a Work of Art · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 66 · Staying Awake · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar Harper’s Magazine February 2008 75 · Great Nature’s Second Course · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 81 · What Women Know · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 88 · Disappearing Grandmothers · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 95 · Learning to Write Science Fiction from Virginia Woolf · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 97 · The Death of the Book · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 104 · Le Guin’s Hypothesis · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 107 · Making Up Stories · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 113 · Freedom · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 116 · A Very Good American Novel: H. L. Davis’s Honey in the Horn · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 120 · Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 127 · Huxley’s Bad Trip · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 133 · Stanislaw Lem: Solaris · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 137 · George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 139 · The Wild Winds of Possibility: Vonda McIntyre’s Dreamsnake · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 143 · Getting It Right: Charles L. McNichols’s Crazy Weather · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 149 · On Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 151 · Examples of Dignity: Thoughts on the Work of Jose Saramago · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 165 · Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Roadside Picnic · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 169 · Jack Vance: The Languages of Pao · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 173 · H. G. Wells: The First Man in the Moon · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 179 · H. G. Wells: The Time Machine · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 184 · Wells’s Worlds · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 192 · Review of Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 195 · The Year of the Flood · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2009 [Ref. Margaret Atwood] 200 · Stone Mattress: Nine Tales · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2014 [Ref. Margaret Atwood] 203 · Kingdom Come · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2006 [Ref. J. G. Ballard] 206 · Review of Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolano · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 209 · Review of When the Killing’s Done by T. C. Boyle · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 212 · Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 215 · The Complete Cosmicomics · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Italo Calvino] 219 · Review of The Sea Lady by Margaret Drabble · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 222 · Carol Emshwiller: Ledoyt · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 227 · Boneland · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Alan Garner] 230 · Kent Haruf Benediction · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 233 · Kent Haruf: Our Souls at Night · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 236 · Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 239 · Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 243 · On Such a Full Sea · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Chang-Rae Lee] 246 · The Cleft · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2007 [Ref. Doris Lessing] 249 · Donna Leon: Suffer the Little Children · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 251 · The High Mountains of Portugal · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Yann Martel] 254 · Embassytown · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. China Miéville] 257 · Three Moments of an Explosion · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. China Miéville] 260 · The Bone Clocks · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. David Mitchell] 264 · Hav · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Jan Morris] 268 · Review of The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 272 · The Enchantress of Florence · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2014 [Ref. Salman Rushdie] 276 · Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights · Ursula K. Le Guin · br 2015 [Ref. Salman Rushdie] 281 · Jose Saramago: Raised from the Ground · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 285 · Jose Saramago: Skylight · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 288 · Sylvia Townsend Warner: Dorset Stories · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 291 · Among Others · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Jo Walton] 294 · The Stone Gods · Ursula K. Le Guin · br [Ref. Jeanette Winterson] 297 · Stephan Zweig: The Post Office Girl · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar 301 · The Hope of Rabbits: A Journal of a Writer’s Week · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar

Edges ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd (Pocket Books, November 1980, 0-671-83532-7, $2.50, 239pp, pb, oa)     Thirteen New Tales from the Borderlands of the Imagination. 9 · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin · in 15 · The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear’s Stead · Damien Broderick · nv 58 · Omens · Carol Emshwiller · ss 65 · Touch the Earth · Scott Sanders · ss 85 · The Other Magus · Avram Davidson · vi 88 · Peek-a-Boom · Sonya Dorman · ss 93 · Suzanne Delage · Gene Wolfe · ss 99 · The Finger · Naomi Mitchison · ss 108 · Barranca, King of the Tree Streets · Lowry Pei · ss 114 · Thomas in Yahvestan · George P. Elliott · nv 140 · The Vengeance of Hera · Thomas M. Disch · ss 153 · Falling · Raylyn Moore · ss 163 · Father returns from the Mountain · Luis Urrea · ss 169 · The Oracle · M. J. Engh · na

Interfaces ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd (Ace, February 1980, 37092-6, $5.95, 310pp, tp, oa) v · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd · in 1 · The Reason for the Visit · John Crowley · ss 11 · Set Piece · Jill Paton Walsh · ss 15 · Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space [Jerry Cornelius; Una Persson] · Hilary Bailey · nv 43 · The New Zombies · Avram Davidson & Grania Davis · ss 59 · Earth and Stone · Robert Holdstock · nv 97 · A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D. · Michael Bishop · ss 115 · Shadows, Moving · Vonda N. McIntyre · ss 128 · The Trumpeter Swan · Laurence Josephs · pm 129 · Lose, Place and Show · Laurence Josephs · pm 131 · The Pastseer · Philippa C. Maddern · nv 153 · Hunger and the Computer · Gary Weimberg · ss 159 · Household Gods · Daphne Castell · ss 175 · Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp · D. G. Compton · ss 191 · Precession · Edward Bryant · ss 207 · A Criminal Proceeding · Gene Wolfe · ss 215 · For Whom Are Those Serpents Whistling Overhead? · Jean Femling · ss 229 · The Summer Sweet, the Winter Wild · Michael G. Coney · ss 245 · The Gods in Winter · Sonya Dorman · pm 251 · Slow Music · James Tiptree, Jr. · na