author : Ursula K. Le Guin

Books

• Interfaces. , with Virginia Kidd
• The Lathe of Heaven. 1971
• The Word for World is Forest. 1972
• The Dispossessed. 1974
• Orsinian Tales. 1976
• The Compass Rose. 1982
• Always Coming Home. 1985
• The Beginning Place. 1987 == Threshold
• Dancing at the Edge of the World. 1989
• The Language of Night. 1989
• Searoad. 1991
• Earthsea Revisioned. 1993
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea. 1994
• The Birthday of the World and other stories. 2002
• [Changing Planes.] 2003
• The Wave in the Mind. 2004
• Words Are My Matter. 2016
• No Time to Spare. 2017
• Annals of the Western Shore
1. Gifts. 2004
2. Voices. 2006
3. Powers. 2007
• Earthsea
1. Earthsea Trilogy. (omnibus)
1. Wizard of Earthsea. 1968
2. The Tombs of Atuan. 1971
3. The Farthest Shore. 1972
4. Tehanu. 1990
5. The Other Wind. 2001
6. Tales from Earthsea. 2001
1. trilogy
1. Wizard of Earthsea. 1968
2. The Tombs of Atuan. 1971
3. The Farthest Shore. 1972
• Gethen
1. The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969
• Hainish League
1. Rocannon's World. 1966
2. Planet of Exile. 1966
3. City of Illusions. 1967
4. The Telling. 2001
• Werel and Yeowe in the Ekumen
1. Four Ways to Forgiveness. 1995
• Wind's Twelve Quarters
1. The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1. 1975
2. The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2. 1975

Short works

• An die Musik. 1961. (In Orsinian Tales )
• April in Paris. 1962. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• Darkness Box. 1963. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• The Masters. 1963. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• Semley's Necklace. 1964. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• The Rule of Names. 1964. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• The Word of Unbinding. 1964
  • In Basilisk
  • In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1
• Nine Lives. 1969. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• Winter's King. 1969. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• A Trip to the Head. 1970. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2 )
• The Good Trip. 1970. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1 )
• Things. 1970. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2 )
• Vaster Than Empires and More Slow. 1971
  • In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2
  • In Women of Wonder
• Field of Vision. 1973
  • In Galaxy: October 1973
  • In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. 1973. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2 )
• The Stars Below. 1973. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2 )
• Direction of the Road. 1974. (In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2 )
• Intracom. 1974. (In The Compass Rose )
• Schrodinger's Cat. 1974. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Author of the Acacia Seeds. 1974. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Day Before the Revolution. 1974
  • In More Women of Wonder
  • In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2
• The Eye Altering. 1974. (In The Compass Rose )
• Mazes. 1975. (In The Compass Rose )
• The New Atlantis. 1975. (In The Compass Rose )
• A Week in the Country. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• Brothers and Sisters. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• Conversations at Night. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• Ile Forest. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• Imaginary Countries. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The Barrow. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The Diary of the Rose. 1976. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Fountains. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The House. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The Lady of Moge. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The Road East. 1976. (In Orsinian Tales )
• The Water is Wide. 1976. (In The Compass Rose )
• Gwilan's Harp. 1977. (In The Compass Rose )
• SQ. 1978. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Eye of the Heron. 1978. (In Millennial Women )
• The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb. 1978. (In The Compass Rose )
• Malheur Country. 1979. (In The Compass Rose )
• Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time. 1979. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Pathways of Desire. 1979. (In The Compass Rose )
• Two Delays on the Northern Line. 1979. (In The Compass Rose )
• The White Donkey. 1980. (In The Compass Rose )
• Small Change. 1981. (In The Compass Rose )
• Sur. 1982. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Phoenix. 1982. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Wife's Story. 1982. (In The Compass Rose )
• The Ascent of the North Face. 1983. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight. 1987. (In The New Hugo Winners Volume II )
• The Ship Ahoy. 1987. (In Searoad )
• Hand, Cup, Shell. 1989. (In Searoad )
• In and Out. 1989. (In Searoad )
• Bill Weisler. 1990. (In Searoad )
• Crosswords. 1990. (In Searoad )
• Texts. 1990. (In Searoad )
• The Kerastion. 1990. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• The Shobies' Story. 1990. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Foam Women, Rain Women. 1991. (In Searoad )
• Geezers. 1991. (In Searoad )
• Hernes. 1991. (In Searoad )
• Newton's Sleep. 1991. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Quoits. 1991. (In Searoad )
• Sleepwalkers. 1991. (In Searoad )
• The First Contact with the Gorganoids. 1991. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• True Love. 1991. (In Searoad )
• The Rock That Changed Things. 1992. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Dancing to Ganam. 1993. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Another Story, or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea. 1994. (In A Fisherman of the Inland Sea )
• Betrayals. 1994. (In Four Ways to Forgiveness )
• Forgiveness Day. 1994. (In Four Ways to Forgiveness )
• Solitude. 1994. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )
• The Matter of Segri. 1994. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )
• Unchosen Love. 1994. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )
• A Man of the People. 1995. (In Four Ways to Forgiveness )
• A Woman's Liberation. 1995. (In Four Ways to Forgiveness )
• Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen. 1995
  • In New Legends
  • In The Birthday of the World and other stories
• Mountain Ways. 1996. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )
• Old Music and the Slave Woman. 1999
  • In Far Horizons
  • In The Birthday of the World and other stories
• The Birthday of the World. 2000. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )
• Darkrose and Diamond. 2001. (In Tales from Earthsea )
• Dragonfly. 2001. (In Tales from Earthsea )
• On the High Marsh. 2001. (In Tales from Earthsea )
• The Bones of the Earth. 2001. (In Tales from Earthsea )
• The Finder. 2001. (In Tales from Earthsea )
• Paradises Lost. 2002. (In The Birthday of the World and other stories )

Books : reviews

Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, eds.
Interfaces.

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• John Crowley. The Reason for the Visit. 1980

• Jill Paton Walsh. Set Piece. 1980

• Hilary Bailey. Everything Blowing Up: An Adventure of Una Persson, Heroine of Time and Space. 1980

• Avram Davidson, Grania Davis. The New Zombies. 1980

• Robert P. Holdstock. Earth and Stone. 1980

• Michael Bishop. A Short History of the Bicycle: 401 B.C. to 2677 A.D.. 1980

• Vonda N. McIntyre. Shadows, Moving. 1980

• Laurence Josephs. Two Poems. 1980

• Phillipa C. Maddern. Pastseer. 1980

• Gary Weimberg. Hunger and the Computer. 1980

• Daphne Castell. Household Gods. 1980

• D. G. Compton. Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp. 1980

• Edward Bryant. Precession. 1980

• Gene Wolfe. A Criminal Proceeding. 1980

• Jean Femling. For Whom are Those Serpents Whistling Overhead?. 1980

• Michael G. Coney. The Summer Sweet, The Winter Wild. 1980

• Sonya Dorman. The Gods in Winter. 1980

• James Tiptree Jr. Slow Music. 1980

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Dispossessed.
1974

rating : 1.5 : unmissable

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Orsinian Tales.
1976

Contents

• The Fountains. 1976

• The Barrow. 1976

• Ile Forest. 1976

• Conversations at Night. 1976

• The Road East. 1976

• Brothers and Sisters. 1976

• A Week in the Country. 1976

• An die Musik. 1961

• The House. 1976

• The Lady of Moge. 1976

• Imaginary Countries. 1976

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Compass Rose.
Gollancz. 1982

Contents

• The Author of the Acacia Seeds. 1974

• The New Atlantis. 1975

• Schrodinger's Cat. 1974

• Two Delays on the Northern Line. 1979

• SQ. 1978

• Small Change. 1981

• The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb. 1978

• The Diary of the Rose. 1976

• The White Donkey. 1980

• The Phoenix. 1982

• Intracom. 1974

• The Eye Altering. 1974

• Mazes. 1975

• The Pathways of Desire. 1979

• Gwilan's Harp. 1977

• Malheur Country. 1979

• The Water is Wide. 1976

• The Wife's Story. 1982

• Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time. == Where Does the Time Go?. 1979

• Sur. 1982

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand.
Gollancz. 1991

Contents

• Foam Women, Rain Women. 1991

• The Ship Ahoy. 1987

• Hand, Cup, Shell. 1989

• Geezers. 1991

• In and Out. 1989

• Bill Weisler. 1990

• True Love. 1991

• Sleepwalkers. 1991

• Quoits. 1991

• Crosswords. 1990

• Texts. 1990

• Hernes. 1991

Ursula K. Le Guin.
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
Harper. 1994

Contents

• The First Contact with the Gorganoids. 1991

• Newton's Sleep. 1991

• The Ascent of the North Face. 1983

• The Rock That Changed Things. 1992

• The Kerastion. 1990

• The Shobies' Story. 1990

• Dancing to Ganam. 1993

• Another Story, or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea. 1994

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Birthday of the World and other stories.
HarperCollins. 2002

Contents

• Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen. == Coming of Age in Karhide. 1995

Sov's first experience of kemmer

• Old Music and the Slave Woman. 1999

• The Matter of Segri. 1994

• Unchosen Love. 1994

• Mountain Ways. 1996

• Solitude. 1994

• The Birthday of the World. 2000

• Paradises Lost. 2002

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Wave in the Mind: talks and essays on the writer, the reader, and the imagination.
Shambhala. 2004

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women’s shoes, beauty and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of reading. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin’s finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Words Are My Matter: writings about life and books 2000-2016.
Small Beer Press. 2016

“Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality…”

Words Are My Matter collects talks, essays, introductions to beloved books, and book reviews by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our foremost public literary intellectuals. Words Are My Matter is essential reading. It is a manual for investigating the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction – and, through the lens of deep considerations of contemporary writing, a way of exploring the world we are all living in.

“We need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

Le Guin is one of those authors and this is another of her moments. She has published more than sixty books ranging from fiction to nonfiction, children’s books to poetry, and has received many lifetime achievement awards including the Library of Congress Living Legends award.

Ursula K. Le Guin.
No Time to Spare: thinking about what matters.
Mariner Books. 2017

On the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”

On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of ?”

On breakfast: “Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime.”

Ursula K. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. The collected best of Ursula’s blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: “How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Gifts.
Orion. 2004

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Voices.
Orion. 2006

Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools and temples. But that was long ago, before the Alds came. The Aids believe demons hide in words, and so they ban reading and writing, acts now punishable by death. The few books that have survived are hidden for safekeeping in the care of the Waylord, crippled by years of torture, and the daughter of his heart, Memer. And now times are changing. The Uplands poet Orrec Caspro and his wife Gry have arrived, and in his voice is a clarion call, awakening a conquered people.

A haunting and gripping coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic, Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget.

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Powers.
Orion. 2007

Young Gavir sometimes sees into the future. He can neither explain nor control this power, and his beloved older sister wisely advises him to keep it secret. It doesn’t really get in the way of his comfortable life as a house slave for a great family. Then tragedy strikes, in a most unexpected way, destroying Gavir’s trust in all he has ever known. Fleeing in blind grief, he finds himself on a dangerous journey towards a goal he does not understand – is he seeking freedom, or his own people? Or is he searching for the true use of his strange powers?

Powers, the third book of the Annals of the Western Shore, is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that brings its hero home at last, to a place where he has never been before.

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Other Wind.
Orion. 2001

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Tales from Earthsea.
Orion. 2001

Contents

• The Finder. 2001

• Darkrose and Diamond. 2001

• The Bones of the Earth. 2001

• On the High Marsh. 2001

• Dragonfly. 2001

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Left Hand of Darkness.
Panther. 1969

rating : 1.5 : unmissable

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Telling.
Gollancz. 2001

Ursula K. Le Guin.
Four Ways to Forgiveness.
Harper. 1995

Contents

• Betrayals. 1994

• Forgiveness Day. 1994

• A Man of the People. 1995

• A Woman's Liberation. 1995

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 1.
1975

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Word of Unbinding. 1964

• Semley's Necklace. == The Dowry of the Angyar. 1964

• April in Paris. 1962

• The Masters. 1963

• Darkness Box. 1963

• The Rule of Names. 1964

• Winter's King. 1969

• The Good Trip. 1970

• Nine Lives. 1969

Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume 2.
1975

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Day Before the Revolution. 1974

• A Trip to the Head. 1970

• Vaster Than Empires and More Slow. 1971

• Things. == The End. 1970

• The Stars Below. 1973

• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. 1973

• Direction of the Road. 1974

• Field of Vision. 1973