Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Author of The Left Hand of Darkness
About the Author
Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in show more 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Ursula K. Le Guin
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume (1996) 1,601 copies, 24 reviews
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (1998) 1,584 copies, 23 reviews
Lao Tzu : Tao Te Ching : A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way (0400) 1,106 copies, 22 reviews
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004) 700 copies, 10 reviews
The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (2016) 433 copies, 4 reviews
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012) 414 copies, 20 reviews
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Editor — 325 copies, 6 reviews
Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of… (2017) 284 copies, 5 reviews
Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume Two: The Word for World Is Forest / Stories / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling (2017) 245 copies, 3 reviews
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories [Library of America Boxed Set] (2017) 197 copies, 1 review
Five Complete Novels: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Word for… (1985) 153 copies, 3 reviews
The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real (2016) 40 copies
Five Novels : The Lathe of Heaven / the Eye of the Heron / the Beginning Place / Searoad / Lavinia (2024) 33 copies
The Word of Unbinding: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) (Earthsea Cycle, #0.1) (1964) 30 copies
Mundos de Ursula K. Le Guin / The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Minotauro Autores Varios) (Spanish Edition) (2008) 27 copies
Le Dit d'Aka : Suivi de Le nom du monde est forêt et de Malaise dans la science-fiction américaine (1972) 24 copies, 2 reviews
Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed Set: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Left Hand of Darkness (1979) 22 copies, 1 review
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine / Wonders Hidden: Audubon's Early Years (1984) 18 copies
The Twins, the Dream / Las Gemelas, El Sueno: Two Voices : Poems = DOS Voces : Poemas (1996) 16 copies
The matter of Seggri [short fiction] 15 copies
Solitude (novelette) 13 copies
Ursula Leguin Collection: Left Hand of Darkness, the Earthsea Quartet & the Dispossessed (2011) 13 copies
A Woman's Liberation [novella] 12 copies
Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella: A Library of America eBook Classic (2019) 11 copies
The Fliers of Gy 11 copies
The Seasons of the Ansarac 10 copies
Old Music and the Slave Women 10 copies
Unlocking the Air [short story] 9 copies
The Catwings Complete Paperback Collection (Boxed Set): Catwings; Catwings Return; Wonderful Alexander and the… (2023) 7 copies
Mountain ways (novelette) 7 copies
Social Dreaming of the Frin 7 copies
A man of the people (novella) 7 copies
The Complete Earthsea Series & The Left Hand of Darkness: 3 BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations (2021) 6 copies
Newton's Sleep 6 copies
Das Wort für Welt ist Wald / Quarantäne im Kosmos / Die denkenden Wälder. Drei Science Fiction Romane in einem Band. (1990) 6 copies
The Building [short story] 5 copies
Dancing To Ganam [short story] 5 copies
Ether OR 5 copies
Am Anfang war der Beutel: Warum uns Fortschritts-Utopien an den Rand des Abgrunds führten und wie Denken in Rundungen… (2020) 5 copies, 1 review
Earthsea & The Left Hand of Darkness: Two BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2016) 5 copies, 1 review
Music And Poetry Of The Kesh 5 copies
May's Lion 5 copies
Betrayals {novelette} 5 copies
Le Guin, Ursula Archive 4 copies
Imaginary Countries [short story] 4 copies
Illusioonide linn ; Maailma nimi on mets ; Impeeriumitest suurem ja pikaldasem veel : [liromaanid ja jutustus] (2002) 4 copies
Horse Camp [short story] 4 copies
Talking about writing 4 copies
The uses of music in uttermost parts [sound recording] — Author — 3 copies
The rock that changed things 3 copies
The Kerastion 3 copies
The Trouble with the Cotton People 3 copies
Half past Four (short story) 3 copies
Woeful Tales from Mahigul 3 copies
Confusions of Uñi [short story] 3 copies
No Boats 3 copies
Supermouse Comix 3 copies
Texts 3 copies
You Rarely See Such Things Any More: Poems from the Side Porch — Author — 2 copies
Sleepwalkers (short story) 2 copies
Hand, Cup, Shell (short story) 2 copies
The Princess and the Goblin 2 copies
Is Gender Necessary? {essay} 2 copies
La roda del cel 2 copies
A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic 1909-10 (in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties… (2017) 2 copies
Unchosen Love [short story] 2 copies
Lorenzo Bean, Dozing 2 copies
The Lost Children (short story) 2 copies
Feeling at Home with the Hennebet 2 copies
The Dispossessed [Volume II] 2 copies
Sita Dulip's Method 2 copies
Porridge on Islac 2 copies
Great Joy 2 copies
Torrey Pines Reserve 2 copies
The Ire of the Veksi 2 copies
Ιστορίες από τη γαιοθάλασσα 2 copies
The Nna Mmoy Language 2 copies
The Dowry of Angyar 1 copy
At Kishamish 1 copy
בידיים ריקות : אוטופיה עמומה 1 copy
The lathe of heaven 1 copy
A Citizen of Mondath [essay] 1 copy
The Future of the Left 1 copy
We Keep Writing Dystopias Instead of Envisioning a Better World--Maybe What We Need is Balance 1 copy
O Mundo de Rocannon Livro 1 1 copy
Infinitive 1 copy
Four different poems 1 copy
Travelling 1 copy
A Cidade das Ilusões Livro 1 1 copy
Expulsos da Terra Livro 1 1 copy
July 1 copy
Os Túmulos de Atuan Livro 1 1 copy
Findings 1 copy
Selected Stories 1 copy
Historias De Terramar II 1 copy
Historias De Terramar I 1 copy
The Wizard of Earthsea 1 copy
Legend of Earthsea 1 copy
La spiaggia più lontana 1 copy
Le Guin's map of Earthsea — Cartographer — 1 copy
Mörkrets vänstra hand 1 copy
Pity and Shame 1 copy
Krylatye Koshki 1 copy
Volšebnik Zemnomorja 1 copy
Roza vanturilor 1 copy
Four Cat Poems [poems] 1 copy
The Modest One [essay] 1 copy
Escape Routes [essay] 1 copy
The Greener Shore 1 copy
Five Vegetable Poems [poems] 1 copy
Three Rock Poems [poems] 1 copy
Un Mago De Terramar 1 copy
Röster 1 copy
The Staring Eye [essay] 1 copy
Mendenhall Glacier {poem} 1 copy
To Siva the Unmaker 1 copy
Wake Island 1 copy
On Theme 1 copy
Notes On Werel And Yeowe 1 copy
No Use to Talk to Me 1 copy
Portland Review Spring 2017 1 copy
The Jar of Water [novelette] 1 copy
Distance {poem} 1 copy
Kore 87 {short story} 1 copy
Supermouse XII: Batpoisson! 1 copy
Sunday in Summer in Seatown [short story] — Author — 1 copy
In the Drought [short story] 1 copy
Lumii Îi Spuneu Pădure 1 copy
Real Power 1 copy
Supermouse II: E.A.G. 1 copy
Supermouse VI: Pussa Returns 1 copy
Supermouse XI: Origins II 1 copy
The Spoons in the Basement [short story] — Author — 1 copy
Землемория - пълно издание 1 copy
Elementals 1 copy
Ruby on the 67 [short story] 1 copy
Climbing to the Moon (short) 1 copy
Limberlost [short story] 1 copy
Unchosen Love 1 copy
Las chicas salvajes 1 copy
The Professor's Houses [short story] — Author — 1 copy
Mâna Stângă A Intunericului 1 copy
Associated Works
Legends I: New Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy (1998) — Contributor — 1,935 copies, 20 reviews
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributor — 1,161 copies, 3 reviews
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was (1983) — Translator, some editions — 642 copies, 20 reviews
Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Vol. 3 (of 3) (1998) — Contributor — 571 copies, 1 review
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians (2002) — Contributor — 541 copies, 13 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999) — Contributor — 488 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Contributor — 482 copies, 2 reviews
The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection (2016) — Contributor — 447 copies, 7 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996) — Contributor — 427 copies, 4 reviews
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contributor — 406 copies, 5 reviews
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Contributor; Contributor — 397 copies, 20 reviews
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contributor — 388 copies, 6 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: First Annual Collection (1986) — Contributor — 323 copies, 6 reviews
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Contributor — 309 copies, 8 reviews
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contributor — 303 copies, 4 reviews
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Contributor — 275 copies, 10 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002) — Contributor — 268 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contributor — 259 copies, 2 reviews
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library… (2018) — Contributor — 247 copies, 6 reviews
The Road to Science Fiction #3: From Heinlein to Here (1979) — Contributor; Contributor — 246 copies, 5 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Contributor — 243 copies, 3 reviews
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy (2006) — Contributor — 243 copies, 9 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 1: Wizards (1983) — Contributor — 241 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004) — Contributor — 238 copies, 9 reviews
More Women Of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women (1976) — Contributor — 237 copies, 7 reviews
The Best of the Best, Volume 2: 20 Years of the Best Short Science Fiction Novels (2007) — Contributor — 209 copies, 9 reviews
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributor — 188 copies, 1 review
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contributor — 187 copies, 2 reviews
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (1995) — Contributor — 184 copies, 1 review
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies (2005) — Contributor — 177 copies, 5 reviews
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contributor — 145 copies, 1 review
Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Vol. B (of 2) (2000) — Contributor — 140 copies, 5 reviews
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Contributor — 138 copies, 6 reviews
Bedtime Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) (2011) — Contributor — 134 copies, 5 reviews
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contributor — 129 copies, 1 review
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (1999) — Contributor — 121 copies, 3 reviews
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 103 copies, 1 review
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction (2010) — Contributor — 102 copies, 1 review
The Choices We Made: Twenty-Five Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion (1991) — Contributor — 101 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2006) — Contributor — 100 copies, 3 reviews
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (2007) — Contributor — 98 copies, 2 reviews
Nebula Awards 31: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1997) — Contributor — 93 copies
The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Storie s By Women: A Library of America… (2022) — Contributor — 89 copies, 4 reviews
Fantasists on Fantasy: A collection of Critical Reflections by Eighteen Masters of the Art (1984) — Contributor — 87 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards 30: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) (1996) — Contributor — 86 copies, 2 reviews
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 9: Atlantis (1988) — Contributor — 79 copies, 1 review
A Reader's Companion to the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (1995) — Contributor — 79 copies, 1 review
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Contributor — 66 copies, 3 reviews
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 60 copies
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: 30th Anniversary Anthology (2007) — Contributor — 57 copies, 1 review
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen (2019) — Contributor — 56 copies, 3 reviews
Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1998) — Author — 55 copies, 3 reviews
Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Narrator, some editions — 54 copies, 1 review
Nebula Awards 26: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (1992) — Contributor — 50 copies, 1 review
Women Who Run With the Werewolves: Tales of Blood, Lust and Metamorphosis (1996) — Contributor — 49 copies
This Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse (2016) — Contributor — 48 copies, 2 reviews
Hear the Silence: Stories by Women of Myth, Magic, & Renewal (1986) — Contributor — 48 copies, 1 review
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributor — 47 copies
Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism (1999) — Contributor — 42 copies
Face to Face: Women Writers on Faith, Mysticism, and Awakening (2004) — Contributor — 36 copies, 1 review
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contributor — 36 copies, 2 reviews
She's Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women's Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism and Fantasy (1995) — Foreword — 34 copies, 1 review
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 34 copies
Women of Vision : Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction (1988) — Contributor, some editions — 33 copies, 1 review
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 28 copies, 8 reviews
Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (1900) — Translator, some editions — 28 copies, 2 reviews
Maailma mielen mukaan : yksitoista tieteisnovellia kolmeltatoista sci-fi -sarjan kirjailijalta (1986) — Contributor — 22 copies, 1 review
A Home-Concealed Woman: The Diaries of Magnolia Wynn Le Guin, 1901-1913 (1990) — Foreword — 21 copies
Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : Le manoir des roses (1978) — Contributor — 20 copies, 1 review
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 24, No. 2 [February 2000] (1999) — Contributor — 14 copies, 2 reviews
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 2000, Vol. 98, No. 6 (2000) — Contributor — 13 copies
Hive of Dreams: Contemporary Science Fiction from the Pacific Northwest (Northwest Readers) (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies
Womens Fantastic Adventures. Stories. ( Fremdsprachentexte). (Lernmaterialien) (1992) — Author — 11 copies
Das Science Fiction Jahr 1994. Ein Jahrbuch für den Science Fiction Leser (1994) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1987, Vol. 73, No. 5 (1987) — Contributor — 9 copies
The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on Their Craft and Ideas (1992) — Contributor — 6 copies
Second Set Out — Foreword — 5 copies
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 — Contributor — 4 copies
Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey Through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science… (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Faseskift : science fiction noveller : et udvalg (1984) — Author, some editions — 3 copies, 1 review
Mythlore, Issue 56. Vol.15, No.2. — Contributor — 2 copies
Antaeus No. 29, Spring 1978 — Contributor — 2 copies
The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told, No. 13, Summer 1969 — Contributor — 2 copies
Millemondi Primavera 2001: Nuove avventure nell'ignoto — Contributor — 2 copies
The Little Magazine, v. 10, #1-2, Spring Summer 1976 — Contributor — 1 copy
The World Fantasy Convention 2011: Sailing the Seas of the Imagination — Contributor — 1 copy
SFの評論大全集 (別冊奇想天外 4) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
- Birthdate
- 1929-10-21
- Date of death
- 2018-01-22
- Burial location
- Donated to Medical Science
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Place of death
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Cause of death
- possible heart attack
- Places of residence
- Portland, Oregon, USA
- Education
- Radcliffe College (AB|1951)
Columbia University (MA|1952) - Occupations
- writer
editor
poet
translator - Relationships
- Kroeber, Alfred L. (father)
Kroeber, Theodora (mother)
Le Guin, Charles (husband)
Kroeber, Karl (brother)
Kroeber, Clifton B. (brother)
Muller, H. J. (cousin) (show all 9)
LeGuin, Elisabeth (daughter)
Le Guin, Caroline (daughter)
Downes-Le Guin, Theo (son) - Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Book View Cafe - Awards and honors
- Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (2003)
Gandalf Award ( [1979])
World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 1995)
SFRA Pilgrim Award (1989)
PEN/Malamud Award (2002)
Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award (2006) (show all 14)
Robert Kirsch Award (1999)
SF Hall Of Fame ( [2001])
Margaret A. Edwards Award (2004)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
May Hill Arbuthnot Lecturer (2004)
Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship (2006)
Fulbright Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017) - Agent
- Virginia Kidd
Members
Discussions
Group Discussion - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin in The Green Dragon (September 2023)
Earthsea in Folio Society Devotees (May 2023)
The Adventure of Cobbler’s Rune by Ursula K. le Guin - CHEAP STREET PRESS LIMITED EDITION 1982 in Fine Press Forum (November 2022)
Group Read, October 2022: The Dispossessed in 1001 Books to read before you die (September 2022)
A Wizard of Earthsea is back in stock in Folio Society Devotees (July 2022)
Problems adding a book in Common Knowledge, WikiThing, HelpThing (November 2021)
Ursula K. LeGuin in Library of America Subscribers (September 2021)
Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle in The Green Dragon (June 2021)
June Group Read: Ursula K. Le Guin in 2018 Category Challenge (September 2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (July 2015)
February Read - SPOILERS - The Lathe of Heaven in The Green Dragon (July 2013)
February Read - NO SPOILERS - The Lathe of Heaven in The Green Dragon (February 2013)
Short story anthology / female coyote and various tricksters. in Name that Book (May 2012)
SciFi - Night people and day people in Name that Book (February 2012)
***Group Read: Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin (spoiler thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (August 2011)
The Dispossessed - by Ursula K. LeGuin in Feminist SF (July 2010)
A Wizard of Earthsea trilogy vs. quartet? in FantasyFans (February 2010)
Reviews
Very much enjoyed the series, now I have to read more of Leguin!! This one dragged a bit - and then the ending felt almost abrupt. But the language and the concepts (luck being deaf in one ear!) carried it through…..
Beautifully written - and with a lot more “story” than the first book. Looking forward to seeing how book three takes it all home!
My daughter recommended this to me - it is outside my usual genre but I came to appreciate the fantasy elements and enjoyed the YA slower pace and direct writing. Wasn’t sure about the plot - but since this is a trilogy I am reserving judgment on that until the end….
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Awards
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories [Library of America Boxed Set] (Winner – Collection – 2018)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Finalist – Collection – 2013)
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My one issue is the length of the time spent traversing the ice. Even as a fairly patient reader, I did find myself wondering just what fraction of the novel was going to be spent there. But honestly, it served to develop the story and, especially, the characters.… (more)