Ursula K. Le Guin Books In Order

Earthsea Cycle Books In Publication Order

  1. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
  2. The Tombs of Atuan (1970)
  3. The Farthest Shore (1972)
  4. Tehanu (1990)
  5. The Other Wind (2001)

Earthsea Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales from Earthsea (2001)

Earthsea Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Earthsea Revisioned (1993)

Catwings Books In Publication Order

  1. Catwings (1988)
  2. Catwings Return (1989)
  3. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994)
  4. Jane on Her Own (1999)
  5. Cat Dreams (2009)

Catwings Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales of the Catwings (1996)
  2. More Tales of the Catwings (2000)

Hainish Cycle Books In Publication Order

  1. Rocannon’s World (1966)
  2. Planet of Exile (1966)
  3. City of Illusions (1967)
  4. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
  5. The Word for World is Forest (1972)
  6. The Dispossessed (1974)
  7. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1994)
  8. The Telling (2000)

Adventures In Kroy Books In Publication Order

  1. The Adventure of Cobbler’s Rune (1982)
  2. Solomon Leviathan’s Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983)

Annals Of The Western Shore Books In Publication Order

  1. Gifts (2004)
  2. Voices (2006)
  3. Powers (2007)

Orsinia Books In Publication Order

  1. Orsinian Tales (1976)
  2. Malafrena (1979)

Unreal and The Real Books In Publication Order

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

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
  2. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else (1976)
  3. The Eye of the Heron (1978)
  4. The Beginning Place / Threshold (1980)
  5. Always Coming Home (1985)
  6. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)
  7. Changing Planes (2003)
  8. Lavinia (2008)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Nine Lives (1968)
  2. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
  3. The Water is Wide (1976)
  4. Leese Webster (1979)
  5. Gwilan’s Harp (1981)
  6. Solomon Leviathan’s 931st Trip Around the World (1983)
  7. The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-Na (With: ) (1984)
  8. Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight (With: ) (1987)
  9. The Wild Girls (2011)
  10. Dangerous People (2019)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 1 (1975)
  2. Wild Angels (1975)
  3. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 2 (1978)
  4. Hard Words and Other Poems (1981)
  5. The Compass Rose (1982)
  6. In the Red Zone (1983)
  7. Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)
  8. Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988)
  9. Blue Moon Over Thurman Street (With: ) (1994)
  10. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
  11. Going Out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994)
  12. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996)
  13. Sixty Odd (1999)
  14. The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002)
  15. Science Fiction Stories (2002)
  16. Incredible Good Fortune (2006)
  17. Walking in Cornwall (2008)
  18. Finding My Elegy (2012)
  19. Late in the Day: Poems, 2010-2014 (2015)
  20. The Found and the Lost (2016)
  21. Five Ways to Forgiveness (2017)
  22. So Far, So Good (2018)

Picture Books In Publication Order

  1. A Visit from Dr. Katz (1988)
  2. Fire and Stone (1989)
  3. Fish Soup (1992)
  4. A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back (1992)
  5. Tom Mouse (1998)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
  2. Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
  3. The Language of the Night (1979)
  4. Way of the Water’s Going (1989)
  5. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)
  6. Cheek by Jowl (2009)
  7. Words Are My Matter (2016)
  8. No Time to Spare (2017)

About Writing Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989)
  2. Steering the Craft (1998)
  3. The Wave in the Mind (2004)
  4. Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (By:) (2008)

The O. Henry Prize Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (By:,,Jennifer Egan,David Guterson) (2003)
  2. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 (By:,Richard Russo,Ann Patchett) (2005)
  3. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (By:Colm Tóibín,,Kevin Brockmeier) (2006)
  4. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (With: ,,Lily Tuck) (2007)
  5. O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (By:,,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) (2008)
  6. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (By:) (2009)
  7. PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 (By:) (2010)
  8. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (By:,,,Brian Evenson,,,,,,,,,,Lily Tuck) (2011)
  9. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 (By:Alice Munro,Wendell Berry,KevinWilson,,Anthony Doerr,,,,Lauren Groff) (2012)
  10. The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories: 2012 (By:) (2012)
  11. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 (By:Kelly Link,Alice Munro,,,,,,,Lily Tuck) (2013)
  12. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2014 (By:) (2013)
  13. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 (By:) (2015)
  14. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 (By:Wendell Berry,Ottessa Moshfegh,,,Diane Cook,,,,LydiaFitzpatrick,,,,,,,Shruti Swamy) (2016)
  15. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 (By:) (2017)
  16. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 (By:) (2018)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991)
  4. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992)
  5. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993)
  6. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995)
  7. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
  8. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
  9. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
  10. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001)
  11. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
  12. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005)
  13. The Best of the Best (2005)
  14. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006)
  15. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007)
  16. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008)
  17. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2008)
  18. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010)
  19. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013)
  20. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014)
  21. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015)

Nebula Awards Books In Publication Order

  1. Nebula Awards 1 (By:Damon Knight) (1966)
  2. Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison) (1966)
  3. Nebula Awards 3 (By:Roger Zelazny) (1968)
  4. Nebula Awards 4 (By:Karen Anderson) (1968)
  5. Nebula Awards 5 (By:Alexei Panshin) (1969)
  6. Nebula Awards 6 (By:Thomas D. Clareson) (1971)
  7. Nebula Awards 7 (By:Theodore Sturgeon,Lloyd Biggle Jr.) (1972)
  8. Nebula Awards 8 (By:Isaac Asimov) (1973)
  9. Nebula Awards 9 (By:Kate Wilhelm) (1974)
  10. Nebula Awards 10 (By:James Gunn) (1975)
  11. Nebula Awards 11 (With: Craig Kee Strete) (1976)
  12. Nebula Awards 14 (By:Robin Malkin) (1980)
  13. Nebula Awards 15 (By:Frank Herbert) (1981)
  14. Nebula Awards 16 (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (1982)
  15. Nebula Awards 17 (By:Joe Haldeman) (1983)
  16. Nebula Awards 19 (By:Marta Randall) (1984)
  17. Nebula Awards 20 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  18. Nebula Awards 21 (By:George Zebrowski) (1985)
  19. Nebula Awards 22 (By:George Zebrowski) (1988)
  20. Nebula Awards 23 (By:Michael Bishop) (1989)
  21. Nebula Awards 24 (By:Michael Bishop) (1990)
  22. Nebula Awards 25 (By:Michael Bishop) (1991)
  23. Nebula Awards 26 (By:James K. Morrow) (1992)
  24. Nebula Awards 27 (By:James K. Morrow) (1993)
  25. Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow) (1994)
  26. Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1995)
  27. Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1996)
  28. Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  29. Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress) (1999)
  30. Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford) (2000)
  31. Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2002)
  32. Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress) (2003)
  33. Nebula Awards 38 (2004) (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (2004)
  34. Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman) (2005)
  35. Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe) (2006)
  36. Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman) (2008)
  37. Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow) (2009)
  38. Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett) (2010)
  39. Nebula Awards 45 (2011) (By:Kevin J. Anderson) (2011)
  40. Nebula Awards 46 (2012) (By:John Kessel) (2012)
  41. Nebula Awards 47 (2013) (By:Catherine Asaro) (2013)
  42. Nebula Awards 48 (2014) (By:Kij Johnson) (2014)
  43. Nebula Awards 50 (2016) (By:Mercedes Lackey) (2016)
  44. Nebula Awards 51 (2017) (By:Julie E. Czerneda) (2017)
  45. Nebula Awards 52 (2018) (By:Jane Yolen) (2018)
  46. Nebula Awards 53 (2019) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson) (2019)

The WisCon Chronicles Books In Publication Order

  1. The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 (2007)
  2. The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future (2008)
  3. The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF (2009)
  4. The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 4 (2010)
  5. The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 5 (2011)
  6. The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom (2012)
  7. The Wiscon Chronicles Vol 7: Shattering Ableist Narratives (2013)
  8. The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 8: Re-Generating WisCon (2014)
  9. The WisCon Chronicles, Vol.9 (2015)
  10. Trials by Whiteness (2017)

Isaac Asimov’s Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Isaac Asimov’s Space of Her Own (With: Connie Willis,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,,Mary Gentle) (1983)
  2. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens & Outworlders (By:Isaac Asimov,,Larry Niven,Lisa Tuttle,Garry Douglas Kilworth,Jack C. Haldeman II,Barry N. Malzberg,William F. Wu,Steve Perry,Bob Shaw,Kate Wilhelm,,,,Madeleine E. Robins) (1983)
  3. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By:) (1985)
  4. Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By:Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard) (1989)
  5. Isaac Asimov’s Aliens (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  6. Isaac Asimov’s Robots (By:Isaac Asimov) (1991)
  7. Isaac Asimov’s SF-Lite (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  8. Isaac Asimov’s War (By:Isaac Asimov) (1993)
  9. Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams (By:Isaac Asimov) (1994)
  10. Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  11. Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (By:Isaac Asimov) (1995)
  12. Isaac Asimov’s Christmas (By:Isaac Asimov) (1997)
  13. Isaac Asimov’s Camelot (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  14. Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov) (1998)
  15. Isaac Asimov’s Valentines (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  16. Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves (By:Isaac Asimov) (1999)
  17. Isaac Asimov’s Solar System (By:Gardner R. Dozois) (1999)
  18. Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov) (2000)
  19. Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)
  20. Isaac Asimov’s Halloween (By:Isaac Asimov) (2001)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader (1973)
  2. Wondermakers 2 (1974)
  3. Beyond Tomorrow (1976)
  4. The Altered I (1978)
  5. Edges (1980)
  6. Interfaces (1980)
  7. The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 (1983)
  8. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985)
  9. The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1985)
  10. Terry’s Universe: Science fiction’s finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr (1987)
  11. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988)
  12. The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1988)
  13. Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 (1988)
  14. The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
  15. Year’s Best SF (1996)
  16. The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996)
  17. Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
  18. The Year’s Best Science Fiction : Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
  19. The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology (1999)
  20. The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection (2002)
  21. In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004)
  22. The Space Opera Renaissance (2006)
  23. The Best of the Best, Vol 2 (2007)
  24. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  25. Dragon Lords and Warrior Women (2010)
  26. Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013)
  27. The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (2014)
  28. The World Split Open (2014)
  29. Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015)
  30. Women of Futures Past (2016)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Books Overview

A Wizard of Earthsea

In print for more than three decades and translated into dozens of languages, here is the audio release of the first book in The Earthsea Trilogy. This is a tale of wizards, dragons, and shadows, played in an archipelago of imagined islands. The young boy Sparrowhawk becomes apprentice to a Master Wizard; but impatience to learn faster takes him far from home to Roke Island, where he enters the School for Wizards. As a student of magic, Sparrowhawk exceeds his years in accomplishment, but pride and jealousy drive the boy to try certain dangerous powers too soon. A terrible evil is let loose in the land.

The Tombs of Atuan

WHEN YOUNG TENAR is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the ominous Tombs of Atuan. While she is learning her way through the dark labyrinth, a young wizard, Ged, comes to steal the Tombs’ greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth Akbe. But Ged also brings with him the light of magic, and together, he and Tenar escape from the darkness that has become her domain. With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She has won countless awards for her work, including the Nebula, Hugo, National Book, and Newbery Honor awards, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

The Farthest Shore

DARKNESS THREATENS to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

With millions of copies sold, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle has earned a treasured place on the shelves of fantasy lovers everywhere. Complex, innovative, and deeply moral, this quintessential fantasy sequence has been compared with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and has helped make Le Guin one of the most distinguished fantasy and science fiction writers of all time. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Tehanu

Classics of high fantasy, Ursula K. Le Guin’s three previous Earthsea novels A W izard Of Earthsea, The Tombs Of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore have been compared with J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and C.S Lewis’ Narnia stories as being among the genre’s greatest creations. Now the fourth and final volume, Tehanu, brings to a conclusion the remarkable Earthsea cycle with a revelation of wisdom, wonder, and literary wizardry. Once she’d been a priestess, quest companion to a powerful mage, a student of high magic. Then she gave it all up to be a farmer’s wife on Gont, content to lead a simple life. But Tenar was not born to live her days in peace, away from great events. A dying wizard and an abused child were the first to call her back to the path she had abandoned. For the end of the adventure beckoned and Tenar would be there along with the dragons, mages, and the young king himself to share in the unforgettable fate of the kingdom known as Earthsea.

The Other Wind

The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs to return to him so much that she kissed him across the low stone wall that separates our world from the Dry Land where the grass is withered, the stars never move, and lovers pass without knowing each other. The dead are pulling Alder to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea. Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman. The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand. Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.

Tales from Earthsea

The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own.’The Finder,’ a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. ‘The Bones of the Earth’ features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. ‘Darkrose and Diamond’ is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. ‘On the High Marsh’ tells of the love of power and of the power of love. ‘Dragonfly’ shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom. Concluding with an account of Earthsea’s history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features two new maps of Earthsea.

Catwings

The four award winning stories of the Catwings are brought together in a brand new, beautiful boxed set for the first time ever. Now readers can follow all of the adventures of the winged cats who escape the dangerous and dirty city to live in the countryside. From the original four cats, James, Roger, Thelma and Harriet, to their new friends, Jane and Alexander, the fantasy that is so wonderfully realistic is brought to life by S. D. Schindler’s delicate, yet vibrant illustrations.

Catwings Return

Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be demolished.

Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings

Wonderful Alexander, the kitten who is the biggest, stongest, and loudest in his family, thinks he is destined for wonderful things. No sooner has he set out to explore on his own than he is chased up a tree and stuck there. His rescuer, Jane, a black kitten with wings, leads him to her home, where Alexander meets the other Catwings. Alexander soon learns how he can repay Jane, who has been so wonderful to him. He helps Jane confront her greatest fear.

Jane on Her Own

When Jane, a cat with wings, leaves the safety of her farm to explore the world, she falls into the hands of a man who keeps her prisoner and exploits her for money. Full color illustrations.

Cat Dreams

The award winning CATWINGS team, Ursula Le Guin and S. D. Schindler create their first magical picture book!Bestselling author Ursula K. Le Guin and acclaimed illustrator S. D. Schindler are together again with a sleepytime picture book for the youngest of cat nappers. Climb into a cat’s dreamland with irresistible paintings and a lyrical purring text.

Rocannon’s World

This debut novel from preeminent science fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colonies have evolved into physically and culturally unique peoples, joined by a League of All Worlds. Earth scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.

Planet of Exile

The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years, and ten of Werel’s years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter, a season that lasts for 15 years, the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches and call the farborns. But hilfs and farborns have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals and eerie preying snow ghouls. Will they join forces or be annihilated? Planet of Exile is the second in the Hainish Cycle series. preceeded by Rocannon’s World and followed by City of Illusions.

City of Illusions

Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth’s in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel of the YearA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.’As profuse and original in invention as The Lord of the Rings.’ Michael Moorcock’What got to me was the quality of the storytelling. She’s taken the mythology, psychology the entire creative surround and woven it into a jewel of a story.’ Frank Herbert’Evocative.’ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction’An instant classic.’ Minneapolis Star Tribune’ A science fiction masterpiece.’ Newsweek

The Word for World is Forest

The award winning masterpiece by one of today’s most honored writers! The Word for World is ForestWhen the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back.

The Dispossessed

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into ‘assets’ and ‘owners,’ tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow ‘space brat’ Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs.

In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America’s most honored and respected authors.

The Telling

‘In The Telling
Le Guin combines the gifts of a pure storyteller at the height of her powers with a wise and passionate heart and the disciplined, ceaselessly questioning mind of a true philosopher.’ Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn From award winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a highly anticipated addition to her acclaimed Hainish cycle, ‘a social anthropology of the future, fascinating and utterly believable.’ Peter S. Beagle Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. But an official observer from Earth named Sutty has learned of a group of outcasts who live in the wilderness. They still believe in the ancient ways and still practice its lost religion The Telling. Intrigued by their beliefs, Sutty joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains…
and into the dangerous terrain of her own heart, mind, and soul. ‘Spellbinding.’ The Denver Post ‘Sings true in every line…
simple and profound.’ Los Angeles Times ‘The Telling will make you anticipate tomorrow a bit differently than you did yesterday.’ Denver Rocky Mountain News ‘Powerfully moving…
This is humanist SF at its best, Le Guin in top form.’ Faren Miller, Locus

Gifts

Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess Gifts. Wondrous Gifts: the ability with a glance, a gesture, a word to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome Gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their Gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world’s darkness, Gifts of light. Includes a reader’s guide and a sample chapter from the companion title Voices.

Voices

Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen year old Memer, the house is a refuge, a place of family and learning, ritual and memory the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer’s life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors? A haunting and gripping coming of age story set against a backdrop of violence, intolerance, and magic, Voices is a novel that readers will not soon forget.

Powers

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes remembers things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these Powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav’s greatest test of all is facing his Powers so that he can come to understand himself and finally find a true home. Includes maps. 20071007

Orsinian Tales

Orsinia…
a land of medieval forests, stonewalled cities, and railways reaching into the mountains where the old gods dwell. A country where life is harsh, dreams are gentle, and people feel torn by powerful forces and fight to remain whole. In this enchanting collection, Ursula K. Le Guin brings to mainstream fiction the same compelling mastery of word and deed, of story and character, of violence and love, that has won her the Pushcart Prize, and the Kafka and National Book Awards.

Malafrena

First edition of Le Guin’s historical novel, set in the fictional country of her ‘Orsinian Tales.’ ‘Malafrena‘ tells the story of Itale Sorde, the son of the owner of an estate on a lake called Malafrena in a valley of the same name. Itale leaves the estate, against his father’s will, to seek adventure. He becomes engaged in nationalistic and revolutionary politics in the Austrian Empire of the early 1800’s. Perhaps an homage to 19th century Russian literature, the story shares themes with the author’s previous sf novel, ‘The Dispossessed.’

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin has been in the vanguard of science fiction since the publication of her first novel in 1966. Her essays and criticism, short stories and novels, have won numerous literary prizes including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Tiptree, and National Book Awards reverent critical acclaim, and a vast, devoted readership that reaches far beyond the genre. But out of all she has produced all the brilliant speculations advanced and wondrous new worlds imagined this is the work which perhaps best endures in the mind, the heart and the conscience. The Lathe of Heaven is George Orr’s story a man who dreams things into being, for better or for worse. It is a dark vision and a warning a fable of power uncontrolled and uncontrollable a truly prescient and startling view of humanity, and the consequences of God playing. It is, quite simply, a masterpiece.

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else / A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else

Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn’t know anything much at all.A slender, realistic story of a young man’s coming of age,Very Far Away from Anywhere Elseis one of the most inspiring novels Ursula K. Le Guin has ever published.

The Eye of the Heron

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the ‘rebellion.’Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny. When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.

The Beginning Place / Threshold

A masterwork of fantasy by the award winning author of The Earthsea Trilogy, Orsinian Tales and The Wind’s Twelve Quarters.

Always Coming Home

Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America’s most respected writers of science fiction. More than five years in the making, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast.

Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand

In one of her most deeply felt works of fiction, Le Guin explores the dreams and sorrows of the inhabitants of Klatsand, Oregon, a beach town where ordinary people bring their dreams and sorrows for a weekend or the rest of their lives, and sometimes learn to read what the sea writes on the sand. Searoad is the story of a particular place that could be any place, and of a people so distinctly drawn they could be any of us.

Changing Planes

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere be anywhere because she was already between planes…
and on the way back from her sister’s wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan’s invaluable Handy Planetary Guide although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty four volumes has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. Changing Planes is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS and THE HITCH HIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world’s best writers.

Lavinia

In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic hero*ine her voice In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills. Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner that she will be the cause of a bitter war and that her husband will not live long. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.

Leese Webster

A palace spider’s extraordinary webs, which imitate paintings and carvings, take a new turn when she is thrown out into the garden.

Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight (With: )

A collection by an award winning author includes ten short tales, eighteen poems, and the title story in which a child survives a plane crash and enters a Dream Time of primitive myths and an all knowing coyote. Reissue.

The Wild Girls

Newly revised and presented here in book form for the first time, this Nebula Award winning story tells of two captive ‘dirt children’ in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to find a glimpse of justice leads to a violent and loving end. Also included is the nonfiction essay ‘Staying Awake While We Read’ which demolishes the pretensions of corporate publishing and the basic assumptions of capitalism, and ‘Outspoken Author Interview,’ which reveals the hidden dimensions of America’s best known sci fi author.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.

Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 2

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.

Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.

The Compass Rose

North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness…
South to discover Antarctica with nine South American women…
West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death…
and onward to all points on and off the compass. Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.

Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences

A collection by an award winning author includes ten short tales, eighteen poems, and the title story in which a child survives a plane crash and enters a Dream Time of primitive myths and an all knowing coyote. Reissue.

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

The winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Kafka Award, and the National Book Award, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a profound and transformational literature. The award winning stories in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea range from the everyday to the outer limits of experience, where the quantum uncertainties of space and time are resolved only in the depths of the human heart. Astonishing in their diversity and power, they exhibit both the artistry of a major writer at the height of her powers and the humanity of a mature artist confronting the world with her gift of wonder still intact.

Unlocking the Air and Other Stories

This collection of mainstream stories, written from the early eighties to the mid nineties, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin. Diffusing the traditional boundaries of realism, magical realism, and surrealism, Le Guin finds the detail that reveals the strange in everyday life, or the unexpected depths of an ordinary person. Written with wit, zest, and a passionate sense of human frailty and toughness, Unlocking the Air is superb fiction by a beloved storyteller at the height of her power.

Sixty Odd

Here is the first new book of poems in more than a decade from the author so well known for her thought provoking science fiction novels. It is also the most autobiographical of Ursula K. Le Guin’s five poetry collections, taking its inspiration from the wisdom and perspective that a woman attains in her sixties. Here she is at turns wry, playful, and sharply critical, with finely observed details of her day to day life and moving philosophical reflections on growing older.

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

For more than four decades, Ursula K. Le Guin has enthralled readers with her imagination, clarity, and moral vision. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and five Hugo and five Nebula Awards, this renowned writer has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never before published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity. Here are stories that explore complex social interactions and troublesome issues of gender and sex; that define and defy notions of personal relationships and of society itself; that examine loyalty, survival, and introversion; that bring to light the vicissitudes of slavery and the meaning of transformation, religion, and history. The first six tales in this spectacular volume are set in the author’s signature world of the Ekumen, ‘my pseudo coherent universe with holes in the elbows,’ as Le Guin describes it a world made familiar in her award winning novel The Left Hand of Darkness. The seventh, title story was hailed by Publishers Weekly as ‘remarkable…
a standout.’ The final offering in the collection, Paradises Lost, is a mesmerizing novella of space exploration and the pursuit of happiness. In her foreword, Ursula K. Le Guin writes, ‘to create difference to establish strangeness then to let the fiery arc of human emotion leap and close the gap: this acrobatics of the imagination fascinates and satisfies me as no other.’ In The Birthday of the World, this gifted literary acrobat exhibits a dazzling array of skills that will fascinate and satisfy us all.

Incredible Good Fortune

Incredible Good Fortune is Ursula K. Le Guin’s sixth collection of poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005. These poems by the celebrated author of Always Coming Home and The Language of the Night showcase Le Guin’s many facets as a writer. Passionate, humanitarian, and sensuously aware of the world’s vitality, Le Guin’s work can also be melancholy, playful, and dreamlike. Full of insight, humor, and wisdom, this collection includes close observations of day to day life, reflections on childhood and growing older, and explorations of myth and fable.

A Visit from Dr. Katz

When Marianne’s mother tells her to stay in bed because she has the flu, Marianne is unhappy. Then her mother says she’ll send in Dr. Katz for a visit. Dr. Katz is Marianne’s two cats. Soon Marianne, with her two friends, drifts off to sleep. Full color illustrations.

Fire and Stone

When the dragon comes swooping down with its tongue of flickering fire, only Min and Podo have the foresight to feed it what it seems to want from them.

Fish Soup

Best friends, the Thinking Man of Moha and the Writing Woman of Maho believe that it would be convenient to have a child who could run messages between them, but the magical children that they conjure up are not quite what they had expected.

A Ride on the Red Mare’s Back

Searching a dark forest for her little brother, who has been abducted by crafty trolls, a girl holds a tiny wooden horse which magically springs to full, snorting life and transports her to her brother, happily eating rats in the trolls’ cave.

Tom Mouse

When a hobo cat tells Tom Mouse tales of travel, he boards a train headed for Chicago and an adventure in a world that’s big and scary and exciting and beautiful. From a much lauded and best selling author, Tom Mouse is a tale of a mouse, a train, and a woman with a pocketful of surprises.

The Language of the Night

A Nebula and Hugo Award winning writer of science fiction presents a collection of essays that explores the various issues, concepts, challenges, and paradoxes that confront the science fiction writer.

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Ursula K. Le Guin, a student of the Tao Te Ching for more than fifty years, offers her own thoughtful rendering of the Taoist scripture. She has consulted the literal translations and worked with the scholar J. P. Seaton to develop a version that lets the ancient text speak in a fresh way to modern people, while remaining faithful to the original Chinese. This rendition reveals the Tao Te Ching’s immediate relevance and power, its depth and refreshing humor, illustrating better than ever before why it has been so loved for more than 2,500 years. Included are Le Guin s own personal commentary and notes along with two audio CDs of the text read by the author, with original music composed and performed by Todd Barton.

Cheek by Jowl

Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Cheek by Jowl, a collection of talks and essays on how and why fantasy matters, by Ursula K. Le Guin. In these essays, Le Guin argues passionately that the homogenization of our world makes the work of fantasy essential for helping us break through what she calls ”the reality trap.” Le Guin writes not only of the pleasures of her own childhood reading, but also about what fantasy means for all of us living in the global twenty first century.

Dancing at the Edge of the World

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind, writes Ursula Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that change in the decade since the publication of her last nonfiction collection, The Language of the Night. And what a mind strong, supple, disciplined, playful, ranging over the whole field of its concerns, from modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos, with an eloquence, wit, and precision that makes for exhilarating reading.

Steering the Craft

Ursula K. Le Guin generously shares the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime’s work.

The Wave in the Mind

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women’s shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin’s finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art pieces, and, most centrally, her reflections on the arts of writing and reading.

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (By:)

Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin assembles interviews with the renowned science fiction and fantasy author of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and the Earthsea sequence of novels and stories. For nearly five decades, Le Guin b. 1929 has enjoyed immense success both critical and popular in science fiction and fantasy. But she has also published well received works in such genres as realistic fiction, poetry, children’s literature, criticism, and translation. In the pieces collected here, Le Guin takes every interview not as an opportunity to recapitulate long held views but as an occasion for in depth intellectual discourse. In interviews spanning over twenty five years of her literary career, including a previously unpublished piece conducted by the volume’s editor, Le Guin talks about such diverse subjects as U.S. foreign policy, the history of architecture, the place of women and feminist consciousness in American literature, and the differences between science fiction and fantasy. Carl Freedman is professor of English at Louisiana State University and is the author of Critical Theory and Science Fiction; The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture; and George Orwell: A Study in Ideology and Literary Form.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (By:,,Jennifer Egan,David Guterson)

Since its establishment in 1919, the O. Henry Prize stories collection has offered an exciting selection of the best stories published in hundreds of literary magazines every year. Such classic works of American literature as Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers 1927; William Faulkner s Barn Burning 1939; Carson McCuller s A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud 1943; Shirley Jackson s The Lottery 1949; J.D. Salinger s For Esme with Love and Squalor 1963; John Cheever s The Country Husband 1956 ; and Flannery O Conner s Everything that Rises Must Converge 1963 all were O. Henry Prize stories.

An accomplished new series editor novelist and short story writer Laura Furman has read more than a thousand stories to identify the 20 winners, each one a pleasure to read today, each one a potential classic. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 also contains brief essays from each of the three distinguished judges on their favorite story, and comments from the prize winning writers on what inspired their stories. There is nothing like the ever rich, surprising, and original O. Henry collection for enjoying the contemporary short story.

The Thing in the Forest A. S. Byatt
The Shell Collector Anthony Doerr
Burn Your Maps Robyn Jay Leff
Lush Bradford Morrow
God s Goodness Marjorie Kemper
Bleed Blue in Indonesia Adam Desnoyers
The Story Edith Pearlman
Swept Away T. Coraghessan Boyle
Meanwhile Ann Harleman
Three Days. A Month. More. Douglas Light
The High Road Joan Silber
Election Eve Evan S. Connell
Irish Girl Tim Johnston
What Went Wrong Tim O Brien
The American Embassy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kissing William Kittredge
Sacred Statues William Trevor
Two Words Molly Giles
Fathers Alice Munro
Train Dreams Denis Johnson

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 (By:,Richard Russo,Ann Patchett)

Mudlavia
Elizabeth Stuckey French

The Brief History of the Dead
Kevin Brockmeier

The Golden Era of Heartbreak
Michael Parker

The Hurt Man
Wendell Berry

The Tutor
Nell Freudenberger

Fantasy for Eleven Fingers
Ben Fountain

The High Divide
Charles D Ambrosio

Desolation
Gail Jones

A Rich Man
Edward P. Jones

Dues
Dale Peck

Speckle Trout
Ron Rash

Sphinxes
Timothy Crouse

Grace
Paula Fox

Snowbound
Liza Ward

Tea
Nancy Reisman

Christie
Caitlin Macy

Refuge in London
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The Drowned Woman
Frances De Pontes Peebles

The Card Trick
Tessa Hadley

What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Sherman Alexie

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 (By:Colm Tóibín,,Kevin Brockmeier)

A radiant reflection of contemporary fiction at its best, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 features stories from locales as diverse as Russia, Zimbabwe, and the rural American South. Series editor Laura Furman considered thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines before selecting the winners, which are accompanied here by short essays from each of the three eminent jurors on his or her favorite story, as well as observations from all twenty prize winners on what inspired them. Ranging in tone from arch humor to self deluding obsessiveness to fairy tale ingenuousness, these stories are a treasury of potential classics.

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 (With: ,,Lily Tuck)

An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na ve, here is fiction that consistently defies our expectations. Selected from thousands of stories in hundreds of literary magazines, the twenty prize winning stories are accompanied by essays from each of the three eminent jurors on which stories they judged the best, and observations from all twenty prizewinners on what inspired them.

The Room
William Trevor

The Scent of Cinnamon
Charles Lambert

Cherubs
Justine Dymond

Galveston Bay, 1826
Eddie Chuculate

The Gift of Years
Vu Tran

The Diarist
Richard McCann

War Buddies
Joan Silber

Djamilla
Tony D Souza

In a Bear’s Eye
Yannick Murphy

Summer, with Twins
Rebecca Curtis

Mudder Tongue
Brian Evenson

Companion
Sana Krasikov

A Stone House
Bay Anapol

The Company of Men
Jan Ellison

City Visit
Adam Haslett

The Duchess of Albany
Christine Schutt

A New Kind of Gravity
Andrew Foster Altschul

Gringos
Ariel Dorfman

El Ojo de Agua
Susan Straight

The View from Castle Rock
Alice Munro

O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 (By:,,Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

An annual collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 is studded with extraordinary settings and characters: a teenager in survivalist Alaska, the seed keeper of a doomed Chinese village, a young woman trying to save her life in a Ukrainian internet caf . Also included are the winning writers’ comments on what inspired them, a short essay from each of the three eminent jurors, and an extensive resource list of literary magazines.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (By:)

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 features unforgettable tales in settings as diverse as post war Vietnam, a luxurious seaside development in Cape Town, an Egyptian desert village, and a permanently darkened New York City. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines.

PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 (By:)

A collection of the twenty best contemporary short stories selected by series editor Laura Furman from hundreds of literary magazines, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 brings to life a dazzling array of subjects: a street orphan in Malaysia, a cowboy and his teenage bride, a Russian nanny in Manhattan, a nineteenth century Nigerian widow, and political prisoners on a Greek island. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Them Old Cowboy Songs Annie Proulx Clothed, Female FigureKirstin Allio The Headstrong Historian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Stand By Me Wendell Berry Sheep May Safely GrazeJess Row Birch Memorial Preeta Samarasan VisitationBrad Watson The Woman of the House William Trevor The Bridge Daniel Alarc n A Spoiled ManDaniyal Mueenuddin Oh, DeathJames Lasdun Fresco, Byzantine Natalie Bakopoulos The End of My Life in New YorkPeter Cameron ObitTed Sanders The Lover Damon Galgut An East Egg Update George Bradley Into the GorgeRon Rash MicrostoriesJohn Edgar Wideman Some Women Alice Munro Making GoodLore Segal For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www. ohenryprizestories. com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 (By:,,,Brian Evenson,,,,,,,,,,Lily Tuck)

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 contains twenty unforgettable stories selected from hundreds of literary magazines. The winning tales take place in such far flung locales as Madagascar, Nantucket, a Midwestern meth lab, Antarctica, and a post apocalyptic England, and feature a fascinating array of characters: aging jazzmen, avalanche researchers, a South African wild child, and a mute actor in silent films. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Your Fate Hurtles Down at YouJim Shepard Diary of an Interesting YearHelen Simpson MelindaJudy Doenges NightbloomingKenneth Calhoun The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor K lm n Once LivedTamas Dobozy IceLily Tuck How to Leave HialeahJennine Cap Crucet The JunctionDavid Means Pole, PoleSusan Minot Alamo PlazaBrad Watson The Black Square Chris Adrian Nothing of ConsequenceJane Delury The Rules Are the RulesAdam Foulds The Vanishing AmericanLeslie Parry CrossingMark Slouka Bed DeathLori Ostlund WindeyeBrian Evenson SunshineLynn Freed Never Come BackElizabeth Tallent Something You Can t Live WithoutMatthew Neill Null For author interviews, photos, and more, go to www. ohenryprizestories. com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

Third in series, winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents include Introduction: Summation: 1985, essay by Gardner Dozois; The Jaguar Hunter, by Lucius Shepard nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1985 World Fantasy Award; Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; Fermi and Frost, by Frederik Pohl winner, 1986 Hugo Award; Green Days in Brunei, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Snow, by John Crowley nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Fringe, by Orson Scott Card nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler; Sailing to Byzantium, by Robert Silverberg winner, 1985 Nebula Award; nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Solstice, by James Patrick Kelly; Duke Pasquale’s Ring, novella by Avram Davidson; More Than the Sum of His Parts, by Joe Haldeman nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Out of All Them Bright Stars, by Nancy Kress Winner, 1985 Nebula Award; Side Effects, by Walter Jon Williams; The Only Neat Thing to Do, by James Tiptree, Jr. nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; winner, 1986 Locus Poll Award; Dinner in Audoghast, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Under Siege, by George R. R. Martin 1986 Locus Poll Award, 6th Place; Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, by Howard Waldrop nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; A Spanish Lesson, by Lucius Shepard Locus Poll Award, 11th Place; Roadside Rescue, by Pat Cadigan; Paper Dragons, by James P. Blaylock winner, 1986 World Fantasy Award; nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Magazine Section, by R. A. Lafferty; The War at Home, by Lewis Shiner 1986 Locus Poll Award, 21st Place; Rockabye Baby, by S. C. Sykes nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

In The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls ‘the field’s real anthology of record.’ With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions. With the editor’s annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty eight of today’s finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylock, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Reed, Michael Sanwick, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, and many more of tomorrow’s leading imaginations. Gardener Dozois’s summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who’s interested in SF today.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois’s latest volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty five representing the finest offerings in the field. Among the gems included here are: ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully ‘The Island of the Immortals’ by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island ‘Approaching Perimelasma’ by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue ‘Taklamakan’ by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World ‘The Summer Isles’ by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently In addition, there are twenty more stories here by the field’s masters and by up and coming new writers, including: William Barton Stephen Baxter Rob Chilson Tony Daniel Cory Doctorow Greg Egan Jim Grimsley Gwyneth Jones Chris Lawson Tanith Lee Paul J. McAuley Ian McDonald Robert Reed William Browning Spencer Allen Steele Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Cherry Wilder Liz Williams Robert Charles Wilson Completing the collection are Dozois’s insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions. With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

In science fiction’s early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever…
and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as: ‘The Wedding Album’ by David Marusek. In a high tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin…
and it’s often hard to tell who’s on what side. ‘Everywhere’ by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such? ‘Hatching the Phoenix’ by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction’s Grand Masters returns with a star crossing tale of the Heechee the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future. ‘A Hero of the Empire’ by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered. The twenty seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The twenty three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Stephen Baxter, M. Shayne Bell, Rick Cook, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tananarive Due, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Peter F. Hamilton, Earnest Hogan, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Susan Palwick, Severna Park, Alastair Reynolds, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Robert Charles WilsonSupplementing the stories is the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The twenty first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily…
and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:’On K2 with Kanakaredes’ by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. ‘The Human Front’ by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming of age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them and nothing is as it appears to be.’Glacial’ by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Eleanor ArnasonChris BeckettMichael BlumleinMichael CassuttBrenda W. CloughPaul Di FilippoAndy DuncanCarolyn Ives GilmanJim GrimsleySimon IngsJames Patrick KellyLeigh KennedyNancy KressIan R. MacLeodKen MacLeodPaul J. McAuleyMaureen F. McHughRobert ReedAlastair ReynoldsGeoff RymanWilliam SandersDan SimmonsAllen M. SteeleCharles StrossMichael SwanwickHoward WaldropSupplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year’s Best Science Fiction Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year’s best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Best of the Best

For years, The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Contributors include: Stephen Baxter Greg Bear William Bigson Terry Bisson Pat Cadigan Ted Chiang John Crowley Tony Daniel Greg Egan Molly Gloss Eileen Gunn Joe Haldeman James Patrick Kelly John Kessel Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Ian R. MacLeod David Marusek Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Mike Resnick Geoff Ryman William Sander Lucius Shepard Robert Silverberg Brian Stableford Bruce Sterling Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Steven Utley Howard Waldrop Walter Jon Williams Connie Willis Gene WolfeWith work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as:

Beyond the Aquila Rift : Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before or so we think.

Comber : Our world is an ever changing one, and award winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet s fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style.

Audubon in Atlantis : In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct.

The twenty nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelley, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Moles, Derryl Murphy, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Peter Watts, Liz Williams, and Gene Wolfe. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The twenty eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
Cory Doctorow Robert Charles Wilson Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Benjamin Rosenbaum Kage Baker Bruce McAllister Alastair Reynolds Jay Lake Ruth Nestvold Gregory Benford Justin Stanchfield Walter Jon Williams Greg Van Eekhout Robert Reed David D. Levine Paul J. McAuley Mary Rosenblum Daryl Gregory Jack Skillingstead Paolo Bacigalupi Greg Egan Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Ken MacLeod Stephen Baxter Carolyn Ives Gilman John Barnes A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross . And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times. The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Praise for Gardner Dozois and The Year s Best Science Fiction: Twenty sixth Annual Collection: This is a worthy addition to a venerable series. Publishers Weekly’For more than a quarter century, Gardner Dozois’s The Year s Best Science Fiction has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall.’ Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSummation: 2009’Utriusque Cosmi’ Robert Charles Wilson’A Story, With Beans’ Steven Gould’Under The Shouting Sky’ Karl Bunker’Events Preceding The Helvetican Renaissance’ John Kessel’Useless Things’ Maureen F. McHugh’Black Swan’ Bruce Sterling’Crimes and Glory’ Paul J. McAuley’Seventh Fall’ Alexander Irvine’Butterfly Bomb’ Dominic Green’Infinities’ Vandana Singh’Things Undone’ John Barnes’On the Human Plan’ Jay Lake’The Island’ Peter Watts’The Integrity of the Chain’ Lavie Tidhar’Lion Walk’ Mary Rosenblum’Escape To Other Worlds With Science Fiction’ Jo walton’Three Leaves of Aloe’ Rand B. Lee’Mongoose’ Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette’Paradiso Lost’ Albert E. Cowdrey’It Takes Two’ Nicola Griffith’Blocked’ Geoff Ryman’Solace’ James Van Pelt’Act One’ Nancy Kress’Twilight of the Gods’ John C. Wright’Blood Dauber’ Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore’This Wind BLowing, And This Tide’ Damien Broderick’Hair’ Adam Roberts’Before My Last Breath’ Robert Reed’One of our Bast*ards Is Missing’ Paul Cornell’Edison’s Frankenstein’ Chris Roberson’Erosion’ Ian Creasey’Vishnu at the Cat Circus’ Ian McDonaldHonorable Mentions: 2009

Nebula Awards 2 (By:Brian W. Aldiss,Harry Harrison)

These stories, first published in 1966, represent an exciting and important time in the history of science fiction the era when SF became true literature. Editors for this volume are BRIAN W. ALDISS and HARRY HARRISON. ALDISS is a prolific award winning author of over two dozen novels, hundreds of short stories, several critical works, and poetry. His latest novels are THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE: OR MY LIFE AS AN ENGLISHMAN and SUPERTOYS. The multiple award winning author of dozens of novels of speculative fiction, HARRISON is best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series, MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM! the basis for the film SOYLENT GREEN, and the alternate history novels STARS & STRIPES FOREVER and STARS & STRIPES IN PERIL. He lives in Ireland. The Secret Place by Richard McKenna ‘ A sensitive piece of writing, a perfect example of second generation science fiction, the retelling and reexamination of a theme that originated in the pulp years…
‘ Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The memorable classic featuring ‘slow glass’ through which light takes a very long time to travel. Who Needs Insurance? by Robin S. Scott If one can be accident prone, then perhaps one can be ‘safety prone’ but why? Among the Hairy Earthmen by R.A. Lafferty Earth is nothing more than a bloody playground for the children of the gods. The Last Castle by Jack Vance A prime example of one of Vance’s ‘haunting mood possessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response.’ Day Million by Frederik Pohl A very short story ‘jewel like conciseness’ of future love, life, and romance. When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman ‘ A sense of strangeness, more than a bit of human warmth, as well as a good strong whiff of alien strangeness.’ Call Him Lord by Gordon R. Dickson Earth proves to be a testing ground for the son of an emperor of a hundred worlds. In the Imagicon by George Henry Smith ‘What good was paradise without something to compare it to? Without a taste of hell from time to time, how could a man appreciate heaven?’ We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick Now better know as the story on which film Total Recall was based, the original is a far more subtle questioning of reality. Man In His Time by Brian W. Aldiss The sole survivor of crash landing on Mars returns to Earth, but is 3. 3077 minutes ahead of the rest of the world.

Nebula Awards 28 (By:James K. Morrow)

Morrow notes that many of the Nebula finalists grapple with the question Is science good or bad? Lending weight to this debate are all of the winners and many of the finalists in the 1992 awards.

Nebula Awards 29 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Each of the Nebula winners and finalists featured here displays its own often highly idiosyncratic excellence. This volume, which represents the best of 1993, includes offerings from Harlan Ellison, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lisa Goldstein.

Nebula Awards 30 (By:Pamela Sargent)

Excellent in all departments Kirkus Reviews, Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best of the year anthologies.

Nebula Awards31 (By:Pamela Sargent)

The prestigious Nebula Awards are the Oscars of science fiction and fantasy, the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Just as the Nebula Awards honor only the finest science ficiton and fantasy, the Nebula Awards series showcases only the best of the ballot, offering as well fiction and nonfiction not collected elsewhere and a dazzling selection of essays written expressley for each volume. No other best of year anthology represents the achievement of the Nebula Awards so well. Nebula Awards 31 is, as Publishers Weekly said of a previous volume, ‘essential reading for anyone who enjoys science fiction.’

Nebula Awards 33 (By:Connie Willis,Jane Yolen,Jerry Oltion,Nancy Kress)

A perfect match the all time top Nebula Award winner edits this year’s volume of the celebrated series honoring the Nebula Awards. The coveted Nebula Awards are the only SF awards bestowed annually by the writers’ own demanding peers, the Science fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Each Nebula Awards collection showcases the year’s Nebula winning fiction, top selections from the ballot including work not collected in other best of the year anthologies and intriguing essays written expressly for each volume. Nebula Awards 33 features prizewinning fiction by Vonda N. McIntyre, Jerry Oltion, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen; the Rhysling Award winners for best SF poetry; classic stories by Grand Master Poul Anderson and Author Emeritus Nelson Bond; and original essays by Jack Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams, Cynthia Felice, Michael Cassutt, Geoffrey Landis, Beth Meacham, Wil McCarthy, and Christie Golden. This excellent compendium is, as was said of last year’s volume, ‘a must read for both serious and casual SF fans alike.’

Nebula Awards 34 (2000) (By:Gregory Benford)

The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction: the finest works in the genre each year as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Nebula Awards Showcase 2000 is a thought provoking and entertaining volume of and about science fiction. Editor Gregory Benford speaks of the interaction between science fiction and science over the past century; editors and authors Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, George Zebrowski, David Hartwell, and Bill Warren discuss and disagree about science fiction’s place in the larger literary scene; authors William Tenn and Hal Clement are honored; and award winning stories are presented by Sheila Finch, Jane Yolen, Bruce Holland Rogers, Joe Haldeman an excerpt from his novel Forever Peace, Geoffrey A. Landis, Walter Jon Williams, and Mark J. McGarry.

Nebula Awards 36 (2002) (By:Kim Stanley Robinson)

Selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards Showcase 2002 presents the finest award winning fiction of the year and includes insightful commentary about the current state of science fiction. ‘Invaluable, not just for the splendid fiction and lively nonfiction, but as another annual snapshot, complete with grins and scowls.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘Would serve well as a one volume text for a course in contemporary science fiction.’ New York Review of Science Fiction

Nebula Awards 37 (2003) (By:Nancy Kress)

Here is the ssential index of one year in SF and fantasy, full of winners and nominees of the prestigious Nebula Award. For groundbreaking works in the genre, the Nebula is perhaps the highest honor in the field and a beacon for readers looking for the best quality science fiction and fantasy around.

Nebula Awards 39 (2005) (By:Ruth Berman)

In an annual tradition, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America present the Nebula Awards to honor the authors of the year’s most astounding fiction compelling stories that widen the imaginative boundaries of the genre. Includes Eleanor Arnason, Richard Bowes, Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, Carole Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Charles Harness, Elizabeth Moon, Robert Silverberg, Adam Troy Castro, and James Van Pelt.

Nebula Awards 40 (2006) (By:ChristopherRowe)

Each year, the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Americar bestow the Nebula Awards to authors whose exemplary fiction represents the most thought provoking and entertaining work the genre has to offer. Nebula Awards Showcase collects the year’s most preeminent science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. This year’s winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.

Nebula Awards 42 (2008) (By:Ben Bova,Ruth Berman)

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions for future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more. This year’s award winning authors include Jack McDevitt, James Patrick Kelly, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, and more. The anthology also features essays from celebrated science fiction authors Orson Scott Card and Mike Resnick.

Nebula Awards 43 (2009) (By:Ellen Datlow)

Michael Chabon, Michael Moorcock, Karen Joy Fowler, and more: The pulse of modern science fiction. New York Times Book Review

This annual tradition from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America collects the best of the year’s stories, as well as essays and commentary on the current state of the genre and predictions of future science fiction and fantasy films, art, and more.

This year s award winning authors include Michael Chabon, Karen Joy Fowler, Ted Chiang, and Nancy Kress, plus 2008 Grand Master Michael Moorcock.

Nebula Awards 44 (2010) (By:Bill Fawcett)

The year’s best science fiction and fantasy in one essential volume. An annual commemoration, the Nebula Awards are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to those members whose imaginations refine and re define the infinite storytelling possibilities found within the genre. The Nebula Awards Showcase represents the best of the best in fantasy in one indispensible collection. This year’s compilation includes stories by: Ursula K. LeGuin Catherine Asaro John Kessel Nina Kiriki Hoffman Harry Harrison, this year’s Grandmaster

The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative essays on feminism, race, revolution, and the future

WisCon, a literary festival for feminists interested in science fiction and fantasy, has for over three decades attracted people with diverse and stronlgy held opinions. It hasn’t always suffered them gladly, and it doesn’t necessarily mediate the arguments that ensue, but WisCon does not homogenize their points of view, and it provides an ongoing opportunity for feminists of all stripes to get together and laugh, talk, and enrich one another. This volume explores some of the issue of interest at WisCon 2007: gender, race, culture, revolution, and the future of thinking about those matters, and it also includes a forum on how to deal with racist and sexist material in writing workshops as well as the epistolary performance that constituted Kelly Link and Laurie J. Marks’ jointly delivered Guest of Honor speeches.

The Wiscon Chronicles, Vol.3: Carnival of Feminist SF

The word’s been out for some time now that we’re living in ”post feminist” times. And yet the world’s largest feminist science fiction convention, held annually in Madison, Wisconsin, which many of the genre’s luminaries attend, has become so popular that the ceiling limiting attendance to 1000 participants often tops out months in advance. People attend to meet up with friends from other parts of the country or the world whom they’ve come to know online; they attend because the programming goes far beyond the ”feminism 101” that is the most they can hope for from most other science fiction conventions. But above all they come to experience the kind of community they can’t get elsewhere. Some participants even characterize it as ”four days of feminist utopia” a reference to the communities created in the most famous feminist novels of the 1970s. This volume explores some of the issues of interest at WisCon 2008: the politics of the intelligibility of stories, internet drama, and feminist fandom. It offers a selection of thoughtful essays and analyses, dialogues, comments, arguments, meditations, and appeals to reason, collected from participants writers, bloggers, activists, and fans, some of them WisCon veterans and some attending for the first time including L. Timmel Duchamp, K. Tempest Bradford, Nancy Jane Moore, Alexis Lothian, Sue Lange, Victoria Janssen, and many others.

Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By:Isaac Asimov)

Uncover a unique collection of mysterious science fiction that goes beyond the mean streets and hard boiled hideouts of traditional tales of dead eye dicks that are out of this world! From the files of Isaac Asimov’s Science FIction Magazine stories from Gregg Egan, Lisa Goldstein, Isaac Asimov, John Varley, Kate Wilhelm, and Nancy Kress.

Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By:Isaac Asimov)

Acclaimed science fiction writers present their own provocative visions of what an ideal world is really like…

Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By:Isaac Asimov)

From the award winning pages of Asimov’s Science Fiction today’s most creative minds explore the fierce, fragile bond between fathers and their children.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection

A consistently award winning collection once again provides the best science fiction stories of the year, featuring work by veterans and newcomers including Michael Bishop, Nancy Kress, Ursula Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Geoff Ryman, Brian Stableford, and many others.

The Norton Book of Science Fiction

In the tradition of other groundbreaking Norton Collections, Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery’s Norton Book of Science Fiction provides the first truly comprehensive and coherent look at the best of contemporary science fiction. Successfully used at over one hundred schools nationwide, these sixty seven stories offer compelling evidence that science fiction is a source of the most thoughtful, imaginative indeed, literary fiction being written today. Readers will be introduced to some rarely anthologized gems from well known authors Poul Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Joanna Russ, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree, Jr., Gene Wolfe, Roger Zelazny as well as starling work by today’s rising stars. Students and teachers alike will appreciate the sophisticated range of voices exploring the nature of reality and the condition of the human spirit.

Year’s Best SF

WORLD ALTERING SCIENCE FICTIONTales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our ownStories that go beyond the limits of Space and Time David G. Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year’s new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction. Our familiar world will look a little less familiar after you read one. Includes stories by:Joe HaldemanUrsula K. Le GuinRobert SilverbergRoper Zelazny

The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection

The marvels of tomorrows past and tomorrows yet to come abound in this delightful volume. With two dozen imaginative and moving tales, this collection included the work of the finest writers in the field, among them: Poul Anderson, Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Michael F. Flynn, Joe Haldeman, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ian R. MacLeod, David Marusek, Paul J. McAuley, Maureen F. McHugh, Robert Reed, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, William Sanders, Dan Simmons, Brian Stableford, Allen Steele, Michael Swanwick. A helpful list of honorable mentions and Gardner Dozois’s insightful summation of the year in science fiction round out the volume, making it indispensable for anyone interested in science fiction today.

Modern Classics of Fantasy

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy’s heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny. Just as Gardner Dozois’s anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction SMP, 1992 has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre’s finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction : Sixteenth Annual Collection

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois’s latest volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty five representing the finest offerings in the field. Among the gems included here are: ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully ‘The Island of the Immortals’ by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island ‘Approaching Perimelasma’ by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue ‘Taklamakan’ by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World ‘The Summer Isles’ by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently In addition, there are twenty more stories here by the field’s masters and by up and coming new writers, including: William Barton Stephen Baxter Rob Chilson Tony Daniel Cory Doctorow Greg Egan Jim Grimsley Gwyneth Jones Chris Lawson Tanith Lee Paul J. McAuley Ian McDonald Robert Reed William Browning Spencer Allen Steele Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Cherry Wilder Liz Williams Robert Charles Wilson Completing the collection are Dozois’s insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions. With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology

Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as ‘F&SF’ celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a spectacular anthology of the best recent work from the magazine. Included are stories from major writers like Bruce Sterling, John Crowley, and Harlan Ellison. Also here are award winners like Ursula K. Le Guin’s Nebula winning ‘Solitude,’ Maureen F. McHugh’s Hugo winning ‘The Lincoln Train,’ and Elizabeth Hand’s Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning ‘Last Summer at Mars Hill.’The fiftieth anniversary collection for the most distinguished magazine of the science fiction and fantasy world. Contributors include:Dale BaileyTerry BissonMichael BlumleinRay BradburyJohn CrowleyBradley DentonPaul Di FilippoS.N. DyerHarlan EllisonEsther M. FriesnerElizabeth HandTanith LeeUrsula K. Le GuinMaureen F. McHughRachel PollackRobert ReedBruce Holland RogersBruce SterlingRay VukcevichKate WilhelmGene Wolfe

The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, a new Year’s Best section, on comics, by Charles Vess, and on anime and manga, by Joan D. Vinge, and a long list of Honorable Mentions, making this an indispensable reference as well as the best reading available in fantasy and horror.

In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Long before Arnold attempted a pale copy, Conan the Barbarian held sway over the land, and all was swell. Neither man nor woman, beast nor spirit could rival him. Then, for many a day, he disappeared…
but lo, now he’s back! Conan is featured, together with some of fantasy’s favorite characters, in this compendium of swordplay and wizardry, fleet footed thieves and flat footed palace guards, witches and man eating leopards, giants and giant slugs. In Lands That Never Were also Includes introductions to each story by the editor.

The Space Opera Renaissance

‘Space opera’, once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the ‘new space opera’ is one of the defining streams of modern SF. Now, World Fantasy Award winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.

The Best of the Best, Vol 2

For more than twenty years The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been recognized as the best collection of short science fiction writing in the universe and an essential resource for every science fiction fan. In 2005 the original Best of the Best collected the finest short stories from that series and became a benchmark in the SF field. Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels from his legendary series. Included are such notable short novels as: Sailing to Byzantium by Robert SilverbergIn the fiftieth century, people of Earth are able to create entire cities on a whim, including those of mythology and legend. When twentieth century traveler Charles Philip accidentally lands in this aberrant time period, he is simultaneously obsessed with discovering more about this alluring world and getting back home. But in a world made entirely of man’s creation, things are not always as they seem on the surface. Forgiveness Day by Ursula K. Le GuinLe Guin returns to her Hainish settled interstellar community, the Edumen, to tell the tale of two star crossed lovers who are literally worlds apart in this story of politics, violence, religion, and cultural disparity. Turquoise Days by Alastair ReynoldsOn a sea wold planet covered with idyllic tropical oceans, peace seems pervasive. Beneath the placid water lurks an ominous force that has the potential to destroy all tranquility. Contributors include: Greg Egan; Joe Haldeman; James Patrick Kelly; Nancy Kress; Ursula K. Le Guin; Ian R. MacLeod; Ian McDonald; Maureen F. McHugh; Frederick Pohl; Alastair Reynolds; Robert Silverberg; Michael Swanwick; Walter Jon Williams With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best, Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novels ever published in the world.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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