num_pages: 330
description: Outer Space Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Semleys Necklace and She Unnames Them) which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless hope to the outsider and speaks truth to powerall the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.Companion volume Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical risky political and experimental earthbound stories. Both volumes include new introductions by the author.This volume includes the following stories: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)Semleys Necklace (1964 1975 Hainish Cycle)Nine Lives (1969 1997)Mazes (1975 2003)The First Contact with the Gorgonids (1991)The Shobies Story (1990 Hainish Cycle)Betrayals (1994 Hainish Cycle)The Matter of Seggri (1994 Hainish Cycle)Solitude (1994 Hainish Cycle)The Wild Girls (1994)The Fliers of Gy (2000)The Silence of the Asonu (2000)The Ascent of the North Face (1983)The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)The Wifes Story (1982)The Rule of Names (1964 Earthsea)Small Change (1981)The Poacher (1992)Sur (1982)She Unnames Them (1985)*Jar of Water (2014) [ * Jar of Water does not appear in the 2012 Small Beer Press edition(s) of this work but was added to the combined volume later released by Saga Press / Simon and Schuster.]
language: English
title: The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
publisher: Small Beer Press