Release Date:
Nov 1st, 2012
Ursula K. Le Guin’s stories have shaped the way many readers see the world. By giving voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaking truth to power—all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor—she has proven herself one of our greatest writers.
This two-volume selection of Le Guin’s stories—as selected by the author—omits stories directly connected to novels. The first volume, Where on Earth, focuses on Le Guin’s interests in realism and magic realism and includes stories from The Compass Rose, Orsinian Tales, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Buffalo Gals, Searoad, and Unlocking the Air.
The Unreal and the Real is a much-anticipated event which will delight, amuse, and provoke.
Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story collections:
“She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen… and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex.”
—Newsweek
“Delicious . . . her worlds are haunting psychological visions molded with firm artistry.”
—Library Journal
“Witty, satirical and amusing. Yet it is the author’s more serious work that displays her talents best, as she employs recurring themes and elements-cultural diversity, unlikely heroes and heroines, power’s ability to corrupt, love’s power to guide-and considers characters and types (women, children, the differently sexed and gendered) so often disenfranchised by other, more technologically oriented SF writers. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A master of the craft.”
—Neil Gaiman
“Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own.”
—The Boston Globe
“There is no more elegant or discerning expositor than Le Guin.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Admirers of fine literature, fantastic or not, will cherish this rich offering.”
—Publishers Weekly
Ursula K. Le Guin has published eleven short story collections, twenty-one novels, essays, poetry, translations, and books for children, and has received the PEN-Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. Also due this year is Finding My Elegy, New and Selected Poems. She lives in Portland, OR.