Dreams Must Explain Themselves — Ursula K. Le Guin

National Book Award Acceptance Speech
Dreams Must Explain Themselves
A Citizen of Mondath
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie
Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?
Is Gender Necessary? Redux
Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness
The Space Crone
Introduction to The Word for World is Forest
Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Or, Why Are We Huddling about the Campfire?
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing
Some Thoughts on Narrative
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
World-Making
The Princess
Facing It
A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
The Sentimental Agents by Doris Lessing
Whose Lathe?
Theodora
Science Fiction and the Future
Prospects for Women in Writing
Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
Heroes
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges
Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops
Indian Uncles by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The Writer On, and At, Her Work
Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty
Introducing Myself
Off the Page: Loud Cows, a Talk and a Poem about Reading Aloud
Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve
All Happy Families
The Operating Instructions
The Question I get Asked Most Often
Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings
A Matter of Trust
On the Frontier
Old Body, Not Writing
The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists
Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers
About Feet
The Writer and the Character
Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature
Why Kids Want Fantasy, or, Be Careful What You Eat
National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech

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Year’s Best SF 6 — Anthology

Year's Best SF 6 -- AnthologyAll stories copyright 2000.

Reef — Paul J. McAuley
Reality Check — David Brin
The Millennium Express — Robert Silverberg
Patient Zero — Tananarive Due
The Oort Crowd — Ken MacLeod
The Thing About Benny — M. Shayne Bell
The Last Supper — Brian Stableford
Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN — Joan Slonczewski
Our Mortal Span — Howard Waldrop
Different Kinds of Darkness — David Langford
New Ice Age, or Just Cold Feet? — Norman Spinrad
The Devotee — Stephen Dedman
The Marriage of Sky and Sea — Chris Beckett
In the Days of the Comet — John M. Ford
The Birthday of the World — Ursula K. Le Guin
Oracle — Greg Egan
To Cuddle Amy — Nancy Kress
Steppenpferd — Brian W. Aldiss
Sheena 5 — Stephen Baxter
The Fire Eggs — Darrell Schweitzer
The New Horla — Robert Sheckley
Madame Bovary, C’est Moi — Dan Simmons
Grandma’s Jumpman — Robert Reed
Bordeaux Mixture — Charles Dexter Ward
The Dryad’s Wedding — Robert Charles Wilson
Built Upon the Sands of Time — Michael F. Flynn
Seventy-Two Letters — Ted Chiang

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Unlocking the Air and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin

The Spoons in the Basement – 1982
The Professor’s Houses – 1982
Half Past Four – 1987
A Child Bride – 1987 first appeared in Terry’s Universe under the title “Kore 87.”
Daddy’s Big Girl – 1987
Limberlost – 1989
The Creatures on My Mind – 1990
Unlocking the Air – 1990
Standing Ground – 1992
Climbing to the Moon – 1992
Findings – 1992
In the Drought – 1993
The Poacher – 1993
Ether, OR – 1995
Sunday in Summer in Seatown – 1995
Olders – 1995
The Wise Woman – 1995
Ruby on the 67 – 1996

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The Found and the Lost — Ursula K. Le Guin

Standalones

Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987
Hernes – 1991
Paradises Lost – 2002

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Hainish

Vaster than Empires and More Slow – 1971
The Matter of Seggri – 1994
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – 1994

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Yeowe and Werel

Forgiveness Day – 1994
A Man of the People – 1995
A Woman’s Liberation – 1995
Old Music and the Slave Women – 1996

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Earthsea

Dragonfly – 1998
The Finder – 2001
On the High Marsh – 2001

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