Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography
Fiction and poetry

Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography

Section Title: Fiction and poetry
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Title	Series or setting, where applicable	Format	Time of first publication	First edition publisher/publication	Notes	Unique identifier	Citations

A Wizard of Earthsea	Earthsea	Novel	1968	Berkeley, Parnassus Press	Illustrated by Ruth Robbins.	OCLC 1210

The Tombs of Atuan	Earthsea	Novel	1971	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by Gail Garraty. A shortened version of The Tombs of Atuan was published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy.	ISBN 9780689206801

The Farthest Shore	Earthsea	Novel	1972	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by Gail Garraty.	ISBN 9780689300547

Tehanu	Earthsea	Novel	1990	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by John Jude Palencar.	ISBN 9780689315954

Tales from Earthsea	Earthsea	Collection	2001	New York City, Harcourt	Illustrated by Kelly Nelson. Includes "The Finder", "Darkrose and Diamond", "The Bones of the Earth", "On the High Marsh", and "Dragonfly".	ISBN 9780151005611

The Other Wind	Earthsea	Novel	2001	New York City, Harcourt	Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen.	ISBN 9780547543192

"The Word of Unbinding"	Earthsea	Short story	January 1964	Fantastic magazine, vol. 13	Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)

"The Rule of Names"	Earthsea	Short story	April 1964	Fantastic magazine, vol. 13	Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)

"Dragonfly"	Earthsea	Short story	1998	Legends, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Tor Books.	"Dragonfly", later collected in Tales from Earthsea (2001), is intended to fit in between Tehanu and The Other Wind and, according to Le Guin, is "an important bridge in the series as a whole".

"Darkrose and Diamond"	Earthsea	Short story	October – November 1999	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 97	Reprinted in Tales from Earthsea (2001)

"The Daughter of Odren"	Earthsea	Short story	September 2014	eBook, Harcourt	First printed in The Books of Earthsea (2018).

"Firelight"	Earthsea	Short story	Summer 2018	The Paris Review, vol. 225	Reprinted in The Books of Earthsea.

The Books of Earthsea	Earthsea	Collection	2018	New York City, Saga Press	Illustrated by Charles Vess. Includes all Earthsea works, including novels, short stories, the essay "Earthsea Revisioned", and a new introduction.	ISBN 9781481465588

Rocannon's World	Hainish Cycle	Novel	1966	New York City, Ace Books	OCLC 9159033

Planet of Exile	Hainish Cycle	Novel	1966	New York City, Ace Books	OCLC 36446381

City of Illusions	Hainish Cycle	Novel	1967	New York City, Ace Books	OCLC 1012127541

The Left Hand of Darkness	Hainish Cycle	Novel	1969	New York City, Ace Books	OCLC 181524

The Dispossessed	Hainish Cycle	Novel	1974	New York City, Harper & Row	ISBN 9780060125639

"The Word for World Is Forest"	Hainish Cycle	Novella	1972	Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison. Garden City, New York, Doubleday.	Reprinted as a standalone volume in New York City by Berkley Books in 1976.	ISBN 9780425032794

Four Ways to Forgiveness	Hainish Cycle	Story cycle	1995	New York City, Harper Prism	Includes "Betrayals", "Forgiveness Day", "A Man of the People", and "A Woman's Liberation".	ISBN 9780061054013

The Telling	Hainish Cycle	Novel	2000	New York City, Ace Books	ISBN 9780441011230

"The Dowry of the Angyar"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	September 1964	Amazing Stories, vol. 38	The first piece of Hainish Cycle fiction written by Le Guin. In later publications the story appears as "Semley's Necklace".

"Winter's King"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	1969	Orbit 5, edited by Damon Knight. New York City, G. P. Putnam's Sons.	The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470997

"Vaster than Empires and More Slow"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	1971	New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg. Garden City, New York, Doubleday.	The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470997

"The Day Before the Revolution"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	August 1974	Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 35	The story was published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470980

"The Shobies' Story"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	1990	Universe 1, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Ace Books.

"Dancing to Ganam"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	September 1993	Amazing Stories, vol. 68

"Another Story"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	August 1994	Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine	Later published as "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea".

"The Matter of Seggri"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	Spring 1994	Crank! magazine

"Unchosen Love"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	Fall 1994	Amazing Stories, vol. 69

"Solitude"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	December 1994	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 87

"Coming of Age in Karhide"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	1995	New Legends, edited by Greg Bear and Martin Greenberg. London, Legend Books.

"Mountain Ways"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	August 1996	Asimov's Science Fiction, vol. 20

"Old Music and the Slave Women"	Hainish Cycle	Short story	August 1996	Far Horizons, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Avon Eos.

"Folksong from the Montayna Province"	Orsinia	Poem	1959	Prairie Poet	Le Guin's first published work.

"An die Musik"	Orsinia	Short story	1961	Western Humanities Review	Le Guin's first published short story.

"Imaginary Countries"	Orsinia	Short story	Winter 1973	The Harvard Advocate

"A Week in the Country"	Orsinia	Short story	Spring 1976	The Little Magazine, vol. 9

"Brothers and Sisters"	Orsinia	Short story	Summer 1976	The Little Magazine, vol. 10

"Two Delays on the Northern Line"	Orsinia	Short story	November 1979	The New Yorker

Orsinian Tales	Orsinia	Collection	1976	New York City, Harper & Row	ISBN 9780060763435

Malafrena	Orsinia	Novel	1979	New York City, Berkley Books	ISBN 9780425046470

The Complete Orsinia	Orsinia	Collection	2016	New York City, The Library of America	An omnibus of Orsinian Tales and Malafrena, as well as some original material.	ISBN 9781598534931

Orsinia	Orsinia	Collection	2017	London, Victor Gollancz	An omnibus of previously published Orsinian works, as well as some original material.	ISBN 9781473212060

Gifts	Annals of the Western Shore	Novel	2004	New York City, Harcourt	ISBN 9780152051242

Voices	Annals of the Western Shore	Novel	2006	London, Orion Children's Books	ISBN 9780152062422

Powers	Annals of the Western Shore	Novel	2007	London, Orion Children's Books	ISBN 9780152066741

Catwings	Catwings	Children's book	1988	New York City, Orchard Books	Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.	ISBN 9780590428330

Catwings Return	Catwings	Children's book	1989	New York City, Orchard Books	Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.	ISBN 9780833566355

Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings	Catwings	Children's book	1994	New York City, Orchard Books	Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.	ISBN 9780439551915

Jane On Her Own	Catwings	Children's book	1999	New York City, Orchard Books	ISBN 9780531301333

Always Coming Home	Kesh/Always Coming Home	Novel	1985	New York City, Harper & Row	While described as a novel, this is a "collage" of tales, verse, drawings, and other material from a fictional future society in the Napa valley.	ISBN 9780060154561

"The Trouble with the Cotton People"	Kesh/Always Coming Home	Short story	Winter 1984	The Missouri Review, vol. 7

"The Visionary"	Kesh/Always Coming Home	Short story	Winter 1984	Parabola: Myth and the Quest for Meaning, vol. 9

"Time in the Valley"	Kesh/Always Coming Home	Short story	Winter 1985	The Hudson Review, vol. 37

The Lathe of Heaven	Novel	1971	New York City, Scribner's Books	ISBN 9780684125299

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else	Novel	1976	New York City, Atheneum Books	Published in the United Kingdom as A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else.	ISBN 9780152052089

The Eye of the Heron	Novel	1978	Millennial Women, edited by Virginia Kidd	Published as a standalone volume in London by Victor Gollancz in 1978. Le Guin has said that The Eye of the Heron might form part of the Hainish Cycle.	ISBN 9780575032118

The Beginning Place	Novel	1980	New York City, Harper & Row	Published in the United Kingdom as Threshold.

Lavinia	Novel	2008	Orlando, Harcourt	ISBN 9780151014248

Leese Webster	Children's book	1979	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by James Brunsman.	ISBN 9780689307157

The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune	Children's book	1982	New Castle, Cheap Street Press	Illustrated by Alicia Austin.	ISBN 9780941826006

Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World	Children's book	1983	New Castle, Cheap Street Press	Illustrated by Alicia Austin.	ISBN 9780399214912

A Visit from Dr. Katz	Children's book	1988	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by Ann Barrow.	ISBN 9780689313325

Fire and Stone	Children's book	1988	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by Laura Marshall.	ISBN 9780689314087

Fish Soup	Children's book	1992	New York City, Atheneum Books	Illustrated by Patrick Wynne.	ISBN 9780689317330

A Ride on the Red Mare's Back	Children's book	1992	New York City, Orchard Books	Illustrated by Julie Downing.	ISBN 9780531070796

Tom Mouse	Children's book	2002	New York City, Roaring Brook Press	Illustrated by Julie Downing.	ISBN 9780761315995

Cat Dreams	Children's book	2009	New York City, Orchard Books	Illustrated by S. D. Schindler.	ISBN 9780545042161

"April in Paris"	Short story	September 1962	Fantastic magazine, vol. 11	Le Guin's first professionally published short story.

"The Masters"	Short story	February 1963	Fantastic magazine, vol. 12

"Darkness Box"	Short story	November 1963	Fantastic magazine, vol. 12

"Selection"	Short story	August 1964	Amazing Stories, vol. 38

"Nine Lives"	Novelette	November 1969	Playboy, vol. 16

"A Trip to the Head"	Short story	1970	Quark/1, edited by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker

"Things"	Short story	1970	Orbit 6, edited by Damon Knight	Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470867

"The Good Trip"	Short story	August 1970	Fantastic magazine, vol. 19	Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062471017

"The Field of Vision"	Short story	October 1973	Galaxy Science Fiction, vol. 34	Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470911

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"	Short story	1973	New Dimensions III, edited by Robert Silverberg

"Direction of the Road"	Short story	1973	Orbit 12, edited by Damon Knight

"The Stars Below"	Short story	1974	Orbit 14, edited by Damon Knight	Published as an eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017.	ISBN 9780062470898

"The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics"	Short story	1974	Fellowship of the Stars, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Simon & Schuster.

"Schrödinger's Cat"	Short story	1974	Universe 5, edited by Terry Carr. New York City, Random House.

"Intracom"	Short story	1974	Stopwatch, edited by George Hay. Shrewsbury, New England Library.

"The Eye Altering"	Short story	1974	The Altered I, edited by Lee Harding. Melbourne, Norstrilia Press.

"Mazes"	Short story	1975	Epoch, edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg. New York City, Berkley Publishing Corporation.

"The New Atlantis"	Short story	1975	The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Hawthorn Books.

"The Diary of the Rose"	Short story	1976	Future Power, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann. New York City, Random House.

"Gwilan's Harp"	Short story	1977	Redbook	Also released as an audiobook read by the author, and published as a standalone book by Lord John Press in 1981.	ISBN 9780935716115

"Ghost Story"	Short Story	1977	Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April-May 1977. Portland, Encore Publishing, Inc.	Distributed to attendees of The Oregon Symphony and The Portland Opera. On the Table of Contents as "Three..."

"Courtroom Scene"	Short Story	1977	Encore, Magazine of the Arts vol. 1, issue 6, April–May 1977. Portland, Encore Publishing, Inc.	Distributed to attendees of The Oregon Symphony and The Portland Opera. On the Table of Contents as "Three..."

"SQ"	Short story	1978	Cassandra Rising, edited by Alice Laurance. New York City, Doubleday.

"The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb"	Short story	Spring 1978	Antaeus No. 29

"The Pathways of Desire"	Short story	1979	New Dimensions Science Fiction, Number 9, edited by Robert Silverberg. New York City, Harper and Row.

"Malheur County"	Short story	Winter 1979	The Kenyon Review, vol. 1

"Where Does Time Go?"	Short story	October 1979	Omni, vol. 2	In the collection The Compass Rose, this was titled "Some Approaches to the Problem of Shortage of Time".

"The White Donkey"	Short story	1980	TriQuarterly No. 49

"Small Change"	Short story	1981	Tor zu den Sternen, edited by Peter Wilfert. Munich, Goldmann Verlag.

"Sur"	Short story	February 1982	The New Yorker

"The Spoons in the Basement"	Short story	August 1982	The New Yorker

"The Professor's Houses"	Short story	November 1982	The New Yorker

"The Ascent of the North Face"	Short story	1983	Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own, edited by Shawna McCarthy. New York City, Davis Publications.

"She Unnames Them"	Short story	January 1985	The New Yorker

"Horse Camp"	Short story	August 1986	The New Yorker

"Daddy's Big Girl"	Short story	January 1987	Omni

"Half Past Four"	Short story	September 1987	The New Yorker

"Legends for a New Land"	Short story	1988	Mythlore, vol. 56

"Kore 87"	Short story	June 1988	Terry's Universe, edited by Beth Meacham. Tor, place of publication unknown.	The story was later anthologized under the title "A Child Bride".

"The Kerastion"	Short story	1990	Westercon 1990 Program Book.

"Newton's Sleep"	Short story	1991	Full Spectrum 3, edited by Lou Aronica, Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell. New York City, Doubleday.

"First Contact with the Gorgonids"	Short story	January 1992	Omni, vol. 14.

"The Rock That Changed Things"	Short story	September 1992	Amazing Stories, vol. 67

"The Poacher"	Short story	1993	Xanadu, edited by Jane Yolen. New York City, Tor Books.

"The Poacher"	Short story	1993	Omni Best Science Fiction Three, edited by Ellen Datlow. Omni Books, place of publication unknown.

"In the drought"	Short story	1994	Xanadu 2, edited by Jane Yolen. New York City, Tor Books.

"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"	Short story	1994	Rohnert Park, Pomegranate Artbooks	A graphical version of the title story from Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet.	ISBN 9780876540718

"Ether Or"	Short story	November 1995	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1995 issue.

"Olders"	Short story	December 1995	Omni, vol. 17

"The Lost Children"	Short story	January 1996	Thirteenth Moon, edited by Jacob Weisman. Tachyon Corporation, place of publication unknown.

"The Island of the Immortals"	Short story	Fall 1998	Amazing Stories, vol. 70.

"The Royals of Hegn"	Short story	February 2000	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2000 issue.

"The Birthday of the World"	Short story	January 2000	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, vol. 98	Le Guin has said that this story may or may not be a part of the Hainish Cycle.

"The Flyers of Gy"	Short story	November 2000	Published online on Sci Fi	Printed for the first time in Changing Planes (2002), where it was titled "The Fliers of Gy".

"The Building"	Short story	2001	Redshift, edited by Al Sarrantonio. New York City, New American Library.

"The Wild Girls"	Short story	March 2002	Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002 issue.

"Social Dreaming of the Frin"	Short story	November 2002	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 103.

"The Seasons of the Ansarac"	Short story	February 2003	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 104.

"LADeDeDa"	Short story	March 2009	Nature, vol. 458.	Written with Vonda McIntyre.

"Elementals"	Short story	2013	The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton. Prime Books, place of publication unknown.

"The Jar of Water"	Short story	Winter 2014	Tin House magazine, winter 2014 issue.

Walking in Cornwall	Chapbook	1976	Originally published privately.	Published in 2008 in Maidstone, by Crescent Moon Publishing.	ISBN 9781861711045

The Water is Wide	Chapbook	1976	Portland, Pendragon Press

Tillai and Tylissos	Chapbook	1979	St. Helena, Red Bull Press	Written with Theodora Kroeber.	OCLC 166327228

In the Red Zone	Chapbook	1983	Northridge, Lord John Press	Written with Theodora Kroeber.	ISBN 9780935716214

A Winter Solstice Ritual	Chapbook	1991	Ygor and Buntho Make Books Press, place of publication unknown	Written with Vonda McIntyre.	OCLC 71852715

No Boats	Chapbook	1992	Seattle, Ygor and Buntho Make Books Press.	Written with Vonda McIntyre.	OCLC 71852716

Findings	Chapbook	1992	Browerville, Ox Head Press	OCLC 27185397

Blue Moon over Thurman Street	Chapbook	1993	Portland, New Sage Press	Illustrated by Roger Dorband.	ISBN 9780939165223

The Wind's Twelve Quarters	Collection	1975	New York City, Harper & Row	ISBN 9780061001628

Dreams Must Explain Themselves	Collection	1975	New York City, Algol Press.	Includes one short story, an interview with Le Guin, a transcript of an acceptance speech and the essay the collection is titled after.	ISBN 9780916186012

The Compass Rose	Collection	1982	New York City, Harper & Row	Contained two previously unpublished short stories; 'The Phoenix' and 'The Wife's Story'.	ISBN 9780060149888

Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences	Collection	1987	Santa Barbara, Capra Press	ISBN 9780876540718

Searoad	Collection	1991	New York City, Harper Collins	ISBN 9781590300848

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea	Collection	1994	New York City, Harper Prism	ISBN 9780061052002

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories	Collection	1996	New York City, Harper Collins	ISBN 9780060928032

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories	Collection	2002	New York City, Harper Collins	ISBN 9780066212531

Changing Planes	Collection	2002	New York City, Harcourt	ISBN 9780151009718

The Wild Girls	Collection	2011	Oakland, PM Press	ISBN 9781604864038

The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Stories of Ursula Le Guin	Collection	2012	Northampton, Small Beer Press	Contained one short story previously unpublished in book form.	ISBN 9780151009718

Wild Angels	Poetry collection	1975	Santa Barbara, Capra Press.	OCLC 747358131

Hard Words and Other Poems	Poetry collection	1981	New York City, Harper & Row	ISBN 9780060125790

King Dog: A Screenplay	Screenplay	1985	Los Angeles, Capra Press	OCLC 603061230

Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems	Poetry collection	1988	New York City, Perennial Library	ISBN 9780060551018

Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems	Poetry collection	1994	New York City, Harper Perennial	ISBN 9780060553562

The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices/Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces.	Poetry collection	1997	Houston, Arte Publico Press	Written with Diana Bellessi. Each author also translated the other's poems.	ISBN 9781558851795

Sixty Odd	Poetry collection	1999	Boston, Shambhala Publications	ISBN 9781570623882

Incredible Good Fortune	Poetry collection	2006	Boston, Shambhala Publications	ISBN 9781590304228

Four Different Poems	Poetry collection	2007	Brattleboro, Longhouse Press	OCLC 241297013

Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country	Poetry collection	2010	Astoria, Raven Studios	Illustrated with photographs by Roger Dorband.	ISBN 9780972860949

Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems	Poetry collection	2012	New York City, Houghton Mifflin Harcout	ISBN 9780547858203

Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014	Poetry collection	2015	Oakland, PM Press	ISBN 9781629631226

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Le Guin published, A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, and The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969.

final_sentence: Le Guin published, A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, and The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969.