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* "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen" (in ''Language of the Night'', 2d ed)
* "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen" (in ''Language of the Night'', 2d ed)
* "Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" (in ''The Wave in the Mind'')
* "Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" (in ''The Wave in the Mind'')
* "Subversive Truths" (in ''Gobshite Quarterly'' issue 3 (Aug. 2003), p. 25)




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Chronological

1972
  • "Fifteen Vultures, The Strop, and the Old Lady" (in Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism, edited by Robin Scott Wilson (New American Library / Signet: 1972)) - An essay on being a writer.
1973
  • "On Theme" (accompanying "Nine Lives," in Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader, edited by Robin Scott Wilson (1973))
  • ""From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (1973 chapbook - Pendragon Press: June 1973. ISBN 091401000X.)
1976
1978
1979
1980
1981
  • "World-Making" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Hunger" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Place Names" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1982
1983
  • "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Along the Platte" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1984
  • "Whose Lathe?" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Woman Without Answers" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1985
  • "Room 9, Car 1430" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Theodora" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Science Fiction and the Future" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Only Good Author?" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1986
1987
  • "Who is Responsible?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Conflict" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1988
  • "Over the Hills and a Great Way Off" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
1992
  • "Talking About Writing" (originally published in The Writer, v. 105 (Dec. 1992), pp. 9-11.)
2003
  • "Subversive Truths" (in Gobshite Quarterly issue 3 (Aug. 2003), p. 25)
2004
2008

By title

A
  • "About Feet" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "All Happy Families" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Along the Platte" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "American SF and The Other" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Assumptions About Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Award and Gender" (in The Wave in the Mind)


B
  • "Being Taken for Granite" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Book Is What Is Real: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Bryn Mawr Commencement Address" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)


C
  • "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children's Literature" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Child and the Shadow" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "A Citizen of Mondath" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Conflict" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists" (in Cheek and Jowl)


D
  • "Do-It-Yourself Cosmology" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts About Beauty" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Dreams Must Explain Themselves" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


E
  • "Escape Routes (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


F
  • "Facing It" (1982) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Fact and/or/plus Fiction" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


G


H
  • "Heroes" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Hunger" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)


I


  • "Introduction to Star Songs of an Old Primate" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Altered I (excerpt)" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to Rocannon's World" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to Planet of Exile" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to City of Illusions" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


L
  • "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Le Guin Introduces Le Guin: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


M
  • "A Matter of Trust" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "A Message About Messages" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Modest One" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (1978) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "My Island" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "My Libraries" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


N


O
  • "Off the Page: Loud Cows: A Talk and a Poem About Reading Aloud" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Old Body Not Writing" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On Fantasy and Science Fiction: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "On the Frontier" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "On Genetic Determinism" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Only Good Author?" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Operating Instructions" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Over the Hills and a Great Way Off" (1988) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)


P
  • "Place Names" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Princess" (1982) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Prospects for Women in Writing" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Pushing at the Limits: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)


Q
  • "The Question I Get Asked Most Often" (in The Wave in the Mind)


R
  • "Re-Reading Peter Rabbit" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain's Diaries of Adam and Eve" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Room 9, Car 1430" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)


S
  • "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Science Fiction and the Future" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (1980) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Space Crone" (1976) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Stalin in the Soul" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "The Staring Eye" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Staying Awake: Notes on the Alleged Decline of Reading", Harper's Magazine (February 2008, pp.33-38)
  • "The Stone Ax and the Muskoxen" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Stress-Rhythm in Poetry and Prose" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Subversive Truths" (in Gobshite Quarterly issue 3 (Aug. 2003), p. 25)


T
  • "Talking About Writing" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Telling Is Listening" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Telling the Truth: Introduction" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Text, Silence, Performance" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Theodora" (1985) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Thinking About Cordwainer Smith" (in The Wave in the Mind)


U
  • "Unquestioned Assumptions" (in The Wave in the Mind)


W
  • "'A War Without End'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books", Slate (Dec. 16, 2004). http://www.slate.com/id/2111107/
  • "Who is Responsible?" (1987) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Whose Lathe?" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?" (in Language of the Night, 2d ed)
  • "Why Kids Want Fantasy" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Wilderness Within" (in Cheek and Jowl)
  • "The Wilderness Within: The Sleeping Beauty and 'The Poacher'" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "Woman / Wilderness" (1986) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Woman Without Answers" (1984) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "World-Making" (1981) (in Dancing at the Edge of the World)
  • "The Writer and the Character" (in The Wave in the Mind)
  • "The Writer on, and at, Her Work" (in The Wave in the Mind)


Y
  • "The Young Adult in the YA" (in Cheek and Jowl)

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