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Ursula K. Le Guin
[1929-2018]
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"Those who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by them."
"Don't shove me into some pigeonhole, where I don't fit, because I'm all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions."
"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
"Writing is my craft. I honor it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honored by it."
"Nobody who says 'I told you so' has ever been, or ever will be, a hero."
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
"[Writing is] an art, a craft, a making. To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit.
To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it."
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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lived in Portland, Oregon since 1959
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry, and four works of translation; she received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Tiptree, Sturgeon, PEN-Malamud, and National Book Award, and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka prizes, among others; she received lifetime achievement awards from World Fantasy Awards, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legends award.
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The Earthsea Cycle
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"Gedo Senki (Tales From Earthsea)"
[Studio Ghibli/N.T.V. Japan July 2006, Disney USA Aug 2010]
![Japanese-language poster for "Tales From Earthsea" [2006] by Goro Miyazaki](covers2/pTalesFromEarthseaJP.jpg) | The reckless youth Sparrowhawk tampers with long-held secrets and looses a terrible shadow upon the world; he is tested, he masters the mighty words of power, he tames an ancient dragon, he crosses death's threshold to restore the balance – and becomes Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea 'Concept' by Hayao Miyazaki; written & directed by {Hayao's son} Goro Miyazaki; adapted from parts of Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Earthsea Cycle; English voices by Timothy Dalton, Mariska Hargitay, Willem Dafoe, Cheech Marin, Matt Levin & Blaire Restaneo At the end of 2011, held #10 spot for worldwide gross box office at $68,048,658 and Japan #10 all-time box office ranking
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The Hainish Cycle
'Hainish Cycle' entry at Wikipedia
"Rocannon's World" novel [Ace Books 1966]
"Planet of Exile" novel [Ace Books 1966]
"City of Illusions" novel [Ace Books 1967] Hainish Cycle Novel 1967
"The Left Hand of Darkness" novel [Ace Books 1969]
"The Dispossessed" novel [Harper & Row 1974] ISBN 9780060125639
"The Word For World Is Forest" novella [1972]
published in "Again, Dangerous Visions" [Doubleday] edited by Harlan Ellison
reprinted as a standalone volume by Berkley Books in 1976 ISBN 9780425032794
"Four Ways To Forgiveness" story cycle [Harper Prism 1995] ISBN 9780061054013
includes "Betrayals", "Forgiveness Day", "A Man of The People", and "A Woman's Liberation"
"The Telling" novel [Ace Books 2000] ISBN 9780441011230
"The Dowry of The Angyar" short story [1964]
published in the September 1964 "Amazing Stories"; the first piece of Hainish Cycle fiction written by Le Guin;
in later publications the story appears as "Semley's Necklace"; it is also used as the prologue of "Rocannon's World"
"Winter's King" short story [1969] ISBN 9780062470997
published in "Orbit 5" [G.P. Putnam's Sons] edited by Damon Knight; published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017
"Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" short story [1971] ISBN 9780062470997
published in "New Dimensions 1" [Doubleday] edited by Robert Silverberg; published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017
"The Day Before The Revolution" short story [1974] ISBN 9780062470980
published in August 1974 "Galaxy Science Fiction"; published as a stand-alone eBook by Harper Perennial in 2017
"The Shobies' Story" short story [1990]
published in "Universe 1" anthology [Ace Books 1990] edited by Terry Carr
"Dancing To Ganam" short story [1993]
published in September 1993 "Amazing Stories"
"Another Story" short story [1994]
published in August 1994 "Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Magazine"; later published as "Another Story: or, A Fisherman of The Inland Sea"
"The Matter of Seggri" short story [1994]
published in Spring 1994 "Crank! Magazine"
"Unchosen Love" short story [1994]
published in Fall 1994 "Amazing Stories"
"Solitude" short story [1994]
published in December 1994 "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"
"Coming of Age In Karhide" short story [1995]
published in "New Legends" anthology [Legend Books 1995] edited by Greg Bear & Martin Greenberg
"Mountain Ways" short story [1996]
published in August 1996 "Asimov's Science Fiction"
"Old Music and The Slave Women" short story [1996]
published in "Far Horizons" anthology [Avon Eos 8/1996] edited by Robert Silverberg
Other Fiction
browse Ursula K. Le Guin Store {returns almost 300 titles} at Amazon
Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography entry at Wikipedia
 | "Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia - Malafrena / Stories and Songs" [2016] Edited by Brian Attebery The historical fiction stories and novel were published before Le Guin turned to science fiction; the nation of Orsinia achieved independence in the XIIth Century but by the XIXth Century was ruled by Austria; the 1976 story collection contains 11 tales; the 1979 novel tells of the struggles (circa 1825-1830) of a young man whose family owns an estate on Lake Malafrena; this book also contains two unpublished songs in the imaginary Orsinian language and two later stories Kindle Edition from Library of America/Penguin Random House [9/2016] for $16.99 Library of America #281 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2016] for $23.71 Library of America author page |
 | "Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 1" [2017]
"Rocannon's World" [1966], "Planet of Exile" [1966], "City of Illusions" [1967], "The Left Hand of Darkness" [1969], "The Dispossessed" [1974], Stories Library of America #296 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2017] for $29.00 "Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume 2" [2017] "The Word For World Is Forest" [1976], "Five Ways To Forgiveness" [1994], "The Telling" [2000], Stories Library of America #297 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2017] for $28.88 |
"The Lathe of Heaven" novel [1971]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven
"The Lathe of Heaven" TV movie [1980] /tt0081036/
"Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults" [Routledge 2004] by Mike Cadden
http://www.amazon.com/Ursula-Guin-Beyond-Genre-Literature-ebook/dp/B000OI0YKY/
http://www.amazon.com/Ursula-Guin-Beyond-Genre-Literature/dp/0415995272/
http://www.amazon.com/Ursula-Guin-Beyond-Genre-Literature/dp/0415972183/
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"The Unreal and The Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin" [2012]
Volume One: "Where On Earth" - 18 stories Kindle Edition from Small Beer Press [11/2012] for $9.99 Small Beer Press 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2012] for $13.56 Volume Two: "Outer Space, Inner Lands" - 20 stories Kindle Edition from Small Beer Press [11/2012] for $9.99 Small Beer Press 9x6¼ hardcover [11/2012] for $13.56 |
Other Works
Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography entry at Wikipedia
official Ursula K. Le Guin blog archive, 2010-17
 | "Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching - A Book About The Way and The Power of The Way" [1997] A New English Version by Ursula K. Le Guin Kindle Edition from Panamas Classics [2/2020] for 49’ {sic} Kindle Edition from Shambhala/Penguin Random House [1998 edition] for $12.99 Shambhala Publns 8½x5½ pb [5/2019] for $10.39 Shambhala 8½x5½ pb [10/98] for $12.70 Shambhala 6½x5¾ hardcover [10/2009] out of print/used Shambhala Publns 9x6 hardcover [8/97] out of print/used |
"No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters" [] by Ursula K. Le Guin
The hero of your new book--if it can be said to have a hero--is a cat named Pard, whom you regard quizzically and with apparent delight. In that same vein, who or what might you say is the villain in this collection?
you could say the villain of this collection is the hero of growth capitalism--The Corporation and the people who sell out to it.
Best known for her speculative fiction, most notably the Earthsea saga, Ursula K. Le Guin is prolific in multiple genres, and unapologetic about it. At 81, she decided to try her hand at blogging, though she loathed the term ("it sounds like a sodden tree trunk in a bog"). Seven years later, she's still posting brief, witty, often acerbic essays on her blog, musing on the vagaries of old age, the proliferation of profanity in books, the joys of receiving fan letters from children and the antics of Pard, her beetle-obsessed cat. No Time to Spare presents the best of Le Guin's blog: sharp-eyed, big-hearted, idiosyncratic and highly enjoyable
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Works About Ursula K. Le Guin
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Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin - a new doc on the groundbreaking sci- fi/fantasy writer of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed and so much more! Documentary Film by Arwen Curry
http://www.worldsofUKL.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqH3nqXqlgs [2.17]
Ursula K. Le Guin Is Still the Radical Feminist We Need Today
adrienne maree brown shares unabashed love for the visionary writer, here and in the new documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/ursula-le-guin-documentary-radical-20190806
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official Ursula K. Le Guin website
Ursula K. Le Guin entry at Wikipedia
Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography entry at Wikipedia
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Ursula K. Le Guin credits {since 1973} at Internet Movie Database
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