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Publication Order of Earthsea Cycle Books

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Tombs of Atuan (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Farthest Shore (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tehanu (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Other Wind (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Daughter of Odren (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Earthsea Collections

Tales from Earthsea (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Earthsea Short Stories/Novellas

Dragonfly (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Finder (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Bones of the Earth (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books

Earthsea Revisioned (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Catwings Books

Catwings (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Catwings Return (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Jane on Her Own (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cat Dreams (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Catwings Collections

Tales of the Catwings (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Hainish Cycle Books

Rocannon's World (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Planet of Exile (1966)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
City of Illusions (1967)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Word for World is Forest (1972)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dispossessed (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Telling (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Adventures In Kroy Books

The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Annals Of The Western Shore Books

Gifts (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Voices (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Powers (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Orsinia Books

Orsinian Tales (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Malafrena (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Unreal and The Real Books

The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 1: Where on Earth (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Unreal and the Real, Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Wind's Twelve Quarters Short Stories/Novellas

April in Paris (1962)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Masters (1963)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Word of Unbinding (1964)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Things (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Good Trip (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Trip to the Head (1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Stars Below (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Direction of the Road (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Darkness Box (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Day Before the Revolution (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Semley's Necklace (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Rule of Names (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Winter's King (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Lathe of Heaven (1971)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Eye of the Heron (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Beginning Place / Threshold (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Always Coming Home (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Changing Planes (2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lavinia (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Nine Lives (1968)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Field of Vision (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Water is Wide (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Leese Webster (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gwilan's Harp (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Solomon Leviathan's 931st Trip Around the World (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (With: ) (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (With: ) (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Unchosen Love (Amazing Stories #591) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Matter of Seggri (in Crank!) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Forgiveness Day (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Solitude (in F&SF) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Man of the People (in Asimov's) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Woman’s Liberation (in Asimov's) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ether OR (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mountain Ways (in Asimov's) (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wild Girls (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dangerous People (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wild Angels (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hard Words and Other Poems (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Compass Rose (1982)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In the Red Zone (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (With: ) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sixty Odd (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Science Fiction Stories (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Incredible Good Fortune (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Walking in Cornwall (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Finding My Elegy (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Found and the Lost (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
So Far, So Good (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Picture Books

A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fire and Stone (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fish Soup (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tom Mouse (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Language of the Night (1979)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Way of the Water's Going (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cheek by Jowl (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Words Are My Matter (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
No Time to Spare (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (With: ) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Books

Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Steering the Craft (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wave in the Mind (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (By:) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books

The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The WisCon Chronicles 11 (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Legends Books

Legends (By:Robert Silverberg) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King (By:Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Elizabeth Haydon) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Legends 3 (With: Terry Pratchett,Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Metis Seçkileri Books

with
We Say No (By:) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991 (By:) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Exiled from Almost Everywhere (By:) (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books

The Human Front (By:Ken MacLeod) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Left Left Behind (By:Terry Bisson,Eleanor Arnason) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lucky Strike (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Underbelly (By:Gary Phillips,Eleanor Arnason) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mammoths of the Great Plains (By:Eleanor Arnason) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wild Girls (With: Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Modem Times 2.0 (By:Michael Moorcock,Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (By:Cory Doctorow,Eleanor Arnason) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Surfing the Gnarl (By:Rudy Rucker,Eleanor Arnason) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Report from Planet Midnight (By:Nalo Hopkinson,Eleanor Arnason) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Science of Herself (By:Karen Joy Fowler,Eleanor Arnason) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Patty Hearst & The Twinkie Murders: A Tale of Two Trials (By:Eleanor Arnason,Paul Krassner) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New Taboos (By:John Shirley) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Raising Hell (By:,Eleanor Arnason) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
My Life, My Body (By:Marge Piercy) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gypsy (By:,Eleanor Arnason) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be (By:Joe R. Lansdale,Eleanor Arnason) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fire. (By:Elizabeth Hand,Eleanor Arnason) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Totalitopia (By:John Crowley) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Atheist in the Attic (By:Samuel R. Delany,Eleanor Arnason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Thoreau's Microscope (By:Michael Blumlein,Eleanor Arnason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Beatrix Gates (By:Rachel Pollack) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A City Made of Words (By:Paul Park) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of PM's Outspoken Authors Books

with Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany
The Left Left Behind (By:Terry Bisson) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books

Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (By:Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,,Alan Dean Foster,,Randall Garrett,,,George Scithers) (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (By:Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,,John Brunner,,,,,,,Somtow Sucharitkul,,,George Scithers) (1981)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (With: Connie Willis,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,,Mary Gentle) (1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By:) (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (By:Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,,Lillian Carl) (1989)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Aliens (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Robots (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (By:Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford) (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's War (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (By:Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) (1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Christmas (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Camelot (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Valentines (By:Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (By:Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Solar System (By:Gardner Dozois) (1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Halloween (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Orbit 6(1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3(1970)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader(1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973(1973)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stopwatch(1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wondermakers 2(1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fantastic Stories Special - 1975 Sword & Sorcery Annual(1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nebula Award Stories 11(1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nebula Award Stories Ten(1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Beyond Tomorrow(1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Sixth Annual Collection(1977)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Altered I(1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories(1978)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Edges(1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction(1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Interfaces(1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Over the Rainbow: Tales of Fantasy and Imagination(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Changes | Stories of Metamorphosis(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Great Fantasy(1983)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection(1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction(1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr(1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Science Fiction Stories(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Through Other Eyes(1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Flights of Fancy(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Norton Book of Science Fiction(1993)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994(1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995(1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women(1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Killing Me Softly(1995)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Year's Best SF(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery Stories(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Modern Classics of Fantasy(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wild Women(1997)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
More Amazing Stories(1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall(1998)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Far Horizons(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology(1999)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection(2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Year's Best SF 8(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003(2003)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
New Magics(2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection(2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction(2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year\'s Best Science Fiction(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
12 Short Stories and Their Making: An Anthology with Interviews(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Galileo's Children(2005)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wand in the Word(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Space Opera Renaissance(2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Best of the Best, Vol 2(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1(2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Secret History of Science Fiction(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women(2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lightspeed: Year One(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Like Water for Quarks(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Moment of Change(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Diverse Energies(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Aliens: Recent Encounters(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Time Traveler's Almanac(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 90, March 2014(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The World Split Open(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Women of Futures Past(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019 Edition(2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Think in Public(2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue(2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author that is best known for her fantasy and science fiction novels for children. The author has also produced poems and essays. Le Guin’s work has been commended for delving into alternative realities with differing ideas on gender, religion, and sexuality.

+Biography

Ursula was born in 1929 to a UC Berkley Anthropologist and a Writer by the names of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kracaw. Ursula has described her childhood as an easy and happy one.

Ursula and her three older brothers found their worldview shaped by their parents’ dynamic friends to whom they were frequently exposed. It helped that Ursula and her siblings spent so much of the year in Berkley only to retreat to an old ranch in Napa Valley for the summer.

Ursula had the privilege of walking amongst congregations of students, writers and scientists and this allowed her to listen in on all manner of conversations. It was during these years that the author’s love for Biology and Poetry was strengthened.

Ursula, in particular, took to reading at an early age and nurtured a love for science fiction and fantasy.

By the time she was eleven, the author had submitted a story to the ‘Astounding Science Fiction’ Magazine for publication. However, it still wasn’t a given that Ursula K. Le Guin would go the way of publishing.

Though, her interest in literature was difficult to ignore. After all, her Radcliffe College degree was in Renaissance French and Italian Literature, not to mention the French and Italian Literature M.A. she got from Columbia University.

Ursula K. Le Guin was initially determined to pursue a doctorate centered on a poet by the names of Jean Lemaire de Belges. But then she met Charles Le Guin in France during her travels and, after their marriage, she saw fit to abandon her studies in that arena.

The historian had his sights set on an Emory University Ph.D. so Ursula followed him back to the United States. It was during these years that the author began to experiment with writing. Finding the time wasn’t easy, not when she was trying her hand at secretary work and even teaching French in college.

The birth of her children complicated matters and so did all the moving the family kept doing. But she persisted in her writing. By 1951, even before she met and married Charles, Ursula had written her first novel.

By 1961, the author had five books under her belt, all of which publishers had rejected for various reasons. So Ursula seemingly gave up on fiction and went to poetry. She eventually returned to fiction professionally in 1964, producing ‘The Word of Unbinding’, a short story that paved the way for the ‘Earthsea Trilogy’, the books for which Ursula is best known.

She followed up the original trilogy with three more books in the ‘Earthsea’ world before branching out to write ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ and ‘The Dispossessed’, books that made Ursula K. Le Guin the first author to win a Hugo and Nebula Award for the same two books.

Ursula cites Philip K. Dick and J.R.R. Tolkien as her influences. Ursula’s Taoism beliefs and anarchism manifest prominently in her work. She also draws upon psychology, sociology and anthropology to produce stories that challenge a reader’s understanding of culture and reality.

+Ursula K. Le Guin Adaptations

Ursula K. Le Guin has had the pleasure of seeing many adaptations arise from her books. In fact, ‘The Lathe of Heaven’, her 1971 novel, was adapted twice. Ursula participated in the 1979 film adaptation and she considers it to be the only true adaptation of her work. A second adaptation was created in 2002.

Ursula had an opportunity to have Hayao Miyazaki adapt her Earthsea books into an anime series. But she didn’t know his work so she turned him down. An animated version of the Earthsea books eventually surfaced in 2006, simply titled ‘Tales from Earthsea’. The movie was directed by Miyazaki’s son and Ursula expressed great disappointment with the liberties it took, especially with regards to the moral message. By this point in time, Ursula had become a massive Miyazaki fan.

Lesser known adaptations include a Chicago’s Lifeline Theater adaptation of ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ and a ‘Legend of Earthsea’ miniseries that the SciFi Channel adapted from the first two Earthsea books.

+A Wizard of Earthsea

There was a time when Ged was considered the greatest of sorcerers in all Earthsea. But that was before his hunger for power and confidence in his own knowledge got the better of him. A shadow was released into the world, beginning Ged’s testing.

Ursula K. Le Guin’s first book in the Earthsea novels introduces Ged to readers. At the start, Ged is quite the cocky and brash boy. He grows so arrogant that he inadvertently unleashes a terrible shadow.

To survive the coming turmoil, Ged is forced to mature, growing comfortable with his dark side.

This book isn’t traditional fantasy and readers looking for a rollicking ride through a fantastical realm will be disappointed. Instead, the first Earthsea book is short, simple and introspective.

The book, which is told like a fairy tale, aims to explore the underlying elements of morality in the overall battle between good and evil. Ged is forced to go on a journey of self-discovery.

He must learn to accept the darkness that lies within him.

+The Tombs of Atuan

Before Arha became high priestess and gained administration over the nameless powers of the Earth, she was just a young girl called Tenar. In becoming high priestess, Arha lost everything, even her name, consigning her life to the task of guarding the ominous Tombs of Atuan.

Arha’s life takes an unexpected turn when Ged infiltrates the Tombs with the intention of stealing a treasure. Drawn to the light of his magic, Arha joins Ged and they escape the dark labyrinth.

The second Earthsea novel introduces the character of Arha to readers. Arha is Priestess over the power of Shadow and it is her job to protect the Tombs of Atuan from intruders. Arha’s life is one of darkness and gloom, and she quickly comes to realize that she is a victim of powers she cannot understand.

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