Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born 1929) is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction and poetry.

Bibliography

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 (1982, Victor Gollancz)
• 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 (forthcoming, 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

• The Birthday of the World (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)
• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way (1997, Shambhala)
• Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (Gabriela Mistral), University of New Mexico Press, 2003)

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; PBS)
• The Lathe of Heaven (2002; A&E)
• Earthsea (2004; Sci-Fi)
• Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1994-95; Lifeline Theater, Chicago, IL)

Intertextual References

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