Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (ursulakleguin.com) (born October 21, 1929 in Berkeley, California) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction and poetry.

She has won numerous awards, including four Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.

Bibliography

Important sequences and series:

• Earthsea series
• Ekumen series
• Orsinian series
• Catwings series
• The Western Shore series

Novels

• Always Coming Home (1985, Harper & Row)
• The Beginning Place (1980, Harper & Row; UK title: Threshold)
• City of Illusions (1967, Ace) Ekumen
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974, Harper & Row) Ekumen
• The Eye of the Heron (1978, in Millennial Women, Delacorte Press (Dell Publishing))
• The Farthest Shore (1972, Atheneum) Earthsea, book 3
• Gifts (2004, Harcourt) Western Shore, book 1
• The Lathe of Heaven (1971, Scribner)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, Ace) Ekumen
• Malafrena (1979, Putnam)
• The Other Wind (2001, Harcourt) Earthsea, book 6
• Planet of Exile (1966, Ace Double) Ekumen
• Rocannon's World (1966, Ace Double) Ekumen
• Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990, Atheneum) Earthsea, book 4
• The Telling (2000, Harcourt) Ekumen
• The Tombs of Atuan (1971, Atheneum) Earthsea, book 2
• Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976, Atheneum; UK title: A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else)
• Voices (2006, Harcourt) Western Shore, book 2
• A Wizard of Earthsea (1968, Parnassus Press) Earthsea, book 1
• The Word for World Is Forest (1976, Berkley) Ekumen

Short story collections

See also List of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002, HarperCollins) Ekumen
• Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987, Capra Press)
• Changing Planes (2003, Harcourt)
• The Compass Rose (1982, Harper & Row)
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994, HarperPrism) Ekumen
• Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995, HarperPrism) Ekumen
• Orsinian Tales (1976, Harper & Row)
• Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991, HarperCollins)
• Tales from Earthsea (2001, Harcourt) Earthsea, book 5
• The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975, Harper & Row) Earthsea and Ekumen
• Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996, HarperCollins)

Children's books

• Catwings (1988, Orchard)
• Catwings Return (1989, Orchard)
• The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982, Cheap Street)
• Fire and Stone (1989, Atheneum)
• Fish Soup (1992, Atheneum)
• Jane on her Own (1999, Orchard)
• Leese Webster (1979, Atheneum)
• A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992, Orchard)
• Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1984, Cheap Street)
• Tom Mouse (2002, Roaring Brook)
• A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988, Atheneum)
• Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994, Orchard)

Poetry collections

• Going Out with Peacocks (1994, HarperCollins)
• Hard Words and Other Poems (1981, Harper & Row)
• No Boats (1991, Ygor and Buntho Make Books)
• Sixty Odd (1999, Shambhala)
• Tillai and Tylissos (with Theodora Kroeber, 1980, Red Bull)
• Wild Angels (1974, Capra)
• Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988, Harper & Row)

Non-fiction

• Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1989, Grove Press)
• The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1979, G.P. Putnam; 1989, Women's Press; 2nd edition published in 1992 by HarperCollins)
• Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (1998, Eight Mountain)
• The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004, Shambhala)

Translations

• Kalpa Imperial (Angélica Gorodischer, 2003, Small Beer Press)
• Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (Lao Tzu) (1997, Shambhala)
• Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Gabriela Mistral), University of New Mexico Press, 2003)
• The Twins, The Dream / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with Diana Bellessi, poet & translator, 1997, Arte Público) (a collaborative translation with Diana Bellessi; each translated the other's work)

Collaborations

• Blue Moon over Thurman Street (with Roger Dorband, photographer, 1993, New Sage)
• Music and Poetry of the Kesh (with Todd Barton, composer, 1985, Valley Productions)
• Rigel Nine: An Opera (with David Bedford, composer, 1985, Charisma)
• The Twins, The Dream / Las Gemelas, El Sueño (with Diana Bellessi, poet & translator, 1997, Arte Público)
• Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts (with Elinor Armer, composer, 1996, Koch)

Edited anthologies

• Edges (1980, Pocket)
• Interfaces (1980, Ace)
• Nebula Award Stories XI (1977, Harper & Row)
• The Norton Book of Science Fiction (with Brian Attebery & Karen Joy Fowler, 1993, Norton)

Uncollected stories and essays

• "Along the River" (1993, Omni Best Science Fiction Three)
• "Earthsea Revisioned" (1993, Green Bay booklet)
• "The Lost Children" (1996, Thirteenth Moon)
• "The Ursula Major Construct: or, A Far Greater Horror Loomed" (1973, Clarion III)
• "The Wild Girls" (2002, Asimov's)

Adaptations of works

• The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV)
• The Lathe of Heaven (2002 TV)
• Earthsea (2004 TV)
• Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Lifeline Theater)

Intertextual references

Le Guin's ansible technology (from the Ekumen universe) has been referenced in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.

Further reading

• (en) Ursula K. Le Guin's website
• (en) Wikipedia
• (it) Ursula K. Le Guin's article at the Italian Wikipedia.org
• Ursula K. Le Guin at LibraryThing
• Ursula K. Le Guin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Ursula K. Le Guin at the Locus Index to SF Awards