Dancing at the Edge of the World

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places is a 1989 collection of essays and reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Editions

• 1989 Grove Press

Contents

• "The Space Crone" (1976)
• "Is Gender Necessary? Redux" (1976)
• "Moral and Ethical Implications of Family Planning" (1978)
• "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1979)
• "Working on 'The Lathe'" (1979)
• "Some Thoughts on Narrative" (1980)
• "World-Making" (1981)
• "Hunger" (1981)
• "Place Names" (1981)
• "The Princess" (1982)
• "A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be" (1982)
• "Facing It" (1982)
• "Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry" (1983)
• "A Left-Handed Commencement Address" (1983)
• "Along the Platte" (1983)
• "Whose Lathe?" (1984)
• "The Woman Without Answers" (1984)
• "The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1984)
• "Room 9, Car 1430" (1985)
• "Theodora" (1985)
• "Science Fiction and the Future" (1985)
• "The Only Good Author?" (1985)
• "Bryn Mawr Commencement Address" (1986)
• "Woman / Wilderness" (1986)
• "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" (1986)
• "Heroes" (1986)
• "Prospects for Women in Writing" (1986)
• "Text, Silence, Performance" (1986)
• "Who is Responsible?" (1987)
• "Conflict" (1987)
• "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?" (1987)
• "Over the Hills and a Great Way Off" (1988)
• "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (1988)

• Review, The Dark Tower by C. S. Lewis (1977)
• Review, "Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid" (1978)
• Review, Shikasta by Doris Lessing (1979)
• Review, Two from 'Venom' (1980)
• Review, Freddy's Book and Vlemk by John Gardner (1980)
• Review, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing (1980)
• Review, Kalila and Dimna, retold by Ramsay Wood (1980)
• Review, Unfinished Business, by Maggie Scarf (1980)
• Review, Italian Folktales, by Italo Calvino (1980)
• Review, Peake's Progress, by Mervyn Peake (1981)
• Review, The Sentimental Agents by Doris Lessing (1983)
• Review, Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino (1984)
• Review, Forsaking Kingdoms: Five Poets (1984)
• Review, The Mythology of North America by John Bierhorst (1985)
• Review, Silent Partners by Eugene Linden (1986)
• Review, Outside the Gates by Molly Gloss (1986)
• Review, Golden Days by Carolyn See (1986)