#7 = Volume 2, Part 3 = November 1975
Jeff Levin
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Select Bibliography.
The following bibliography is a selected and, with respect to the type of
data presented, otherwise reduced version of a full Bibliographical Checklist of
Le Guin's works which I am preparing for independent publication. Le Guin's
published prose fiction is given complete, but no poems are listed other than
those included in the book C2 (there would be 14 more items between 1959 and
1974), nor are her translations of Rilke's poems from a French version or her
translations of Malaguti's prose from the Italian. The General category is a
selection confined, in consultation with the editor of this special issue of SFS,
to the most significant of her non-fictional works; omitted are about two dozen
letters, notes, and brief articles, mainly in SF fan magazines. In preparing
this bibliography I have had the help of Ms. Le Guin herself, who generously put
her personal files at my disposal. I would also like to thank for their help
Virginia Kidd, Leslie Kay Swigart, and Chuck Jarvis. I would be grateful for any
information I might have missed.
C1-C3. Collections
C1. Le monde de Rocannon / Planete d'exil / La cité des illusions. [See ##
9, 10, 11]. Translated by Jean Bailhache. Paris: Opta—Club du Livre
d'Anticipation, 1972. Also contains the essay G7, tr. Michel Demuth.
C2. Wild Angels [Poems]. 50p. $2.50. Capra Press (631 State Street, Santa
Barbara, CA 93101), 1975. 1) O wild angels.... 2) Coming of Age. 3) There. 4)
Footnote. 5) Hier Steh' Ich. 6) Song. 7) Archaeology of the Renaissance. 8) From
Whose Bourne. 9) March 21. 10) The Darkness. 11) Dreampoem. 12) The Young. 13)
The Anger. 14) Ars Lunga [sic.]. 15) The Molsen. 16) The Withinner. 17)
Offering. 18) Arboreal. 19) Dreampoem II. 20) A Lament for Rheged. 21) The
Rooftree. 22) Some of the Philosophers. 23) Snow. 24) Flying West From Denver.
25) Winter-Rose. 26) Mount St Helens/Omphalos. 27) For Robinson Jeffers' Ghost.
28) For Bob. 29) Für Elise. 30) For Ted. 31) Elegy. 32) Tao Song.
C3. The Wind's Twelve Quarters. Short Stories. 297p (in proof copy). Harper
and Row, 1975 (scheduled October). Contains a Foreword and, with prefatory
notes, ## 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31.
C4. Dreams Must Explain Themselves. In preparation (perhaps now ready), 1975,
at Algol, Box 4175, New York, NY 10017. $3.00. Contains #6, G14, and G23.
##1 -35. Stories and Novels
#1. An die Musik (short story). Summer 1961 (in Western Humanities Review
magazine).
#2. April in Paris (short story). Sept 1962 (in Fantastic magazine).
1969 (in Strange Fantasy No. 10, magazine). 1973 (in The Best From
Fantastic, ed. Ted White, Manor Books pb). Collected in C3.
#3. The Masters (short story). Feb 1963 (in Fantastic magazine). 1975
(in Sword & Sorcery Annual magazine). Collected in C3.
#4. Darkness Box (short story). Nov 1963 (in Fantastic magazine). 1970
(in Weird Mystery No. 2, magazine). Collected in C3.
#5. The Word of Unbinding (short story). Jan 1964 (in Fantastic
magazine). 1970 (in Strange Fantasy No. 13, magazine). 1973 (in The
Golden Road, ed. Damon Knight, Simon and Schuster hb). Collected in C3.
#6. The Rule of Names (short story). Apr 1964 (in Fantastic magazine).
1969 (in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Story Ever Told No. 13,
magazine). 1974 (in Algol magazine, No. 21). Collected in C3.
#7. Selection. (short story). Aug 1964 (in Amazing magazine). 1970 (in
Science Fiction Greats No. 17, magazine).
#8. The Dowry of Angyar (short story). Sept 1964 (in Amazing
magazine). 1970 (in SF Greats No. 19, magazine). 1973 (in The Best
From Amazing Stories, ed. Ted White, Manor Books pb). Incorporated as
prologue into #10: Rocannon's World. (Author's title: Semley's Necklace—collected
in C3 under that title.)
#9. Rocannon's World (novel). 1966 (Ace pb, bound with Avram Davidson's The
Kar-Chee Reign). 1972 (Ace pb). 1972 (UK: Tandem pb). 1973 (Milano: Delta,
as L'ultimo pianeta al di là delle stelle, tr. Pier Antonio Rumignani).
1975 (Garland hb). See also C1.
#10. Planet of Exile (novel). 1966 (Ace pb, bound with Thomas M. Disch's Mankind
Under the Leash). 1971 (Ace pb). 1972 (UK: Tandem pb). 1973 (Utrecht/Antwerpen:
Het Spectrum, as Ballings Planeet, tr. T. Vosdahmen von Bucholz). 1975
(Garland hb). See also C1.
#11. City of Illusions (novel). 1967 (Ace pb). 1971 (UK: Gollancz hb). 1972
(Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum as De Shing-Begoocheling, tr. A.B.H. van
Bommel-van Terwisga). 1973 (UK: Panther pb). 1975 (Garland hb). See also C1.
(Author's title: Two-minded Man.)
#12. A Wizard of Earthsea (novel). 1968 (Parnassus Press hb). 1969 (Parnassus
Press hb). 1970 (Ace pb). 1971 (UK: Penguin/Puffin pb). 1971 (UK: Gollancz hb).
1974 (UK: Heinemann Educational Books hb). 1974 (as Machten van Aardzee,
Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum). 1974 (Ace pb). 1975 (Bantam pb).
#13. Winter's King (short story). 1969 (in Orbit 5, ed. Damon Knight,
Putnam hb and various subsequent edns). 1972 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, in Damon
Knight's Collection 6, as "Winterkönig," pb). Emended version
collected in C3.
#14. The Left Hand of Darkness (novel). 1969 (Ace pb). 1969 (Walker hb). 1969
(UK: Macdonald hb). 1969 (SFBC edn as pbd by Walker, hb). 1971 (Paris: Robert
Laffont, as La main gauche de la nuit, tr. Jean Bailhache, pb). 1971
(Bologna: Libra, as La mano sinistra delle tenebre, tr. Ugo Malaguti, hb).
1971 (Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, as Duisters Linkerhand pb). 1972 (Tokyo:
Hayakawa, as yami no hidari te, tr. Fusa Obi, pb). 1973 (UK: Panther pb).
1973 (Buenos Aires: Minotauro, as La mano izquierda de la oscuridad, tr.
Francisco Abelanda, pb).
#15. Nine Lives (short story). Nov 1969 (in Playboy magazine). 1970
(in Nebula Award Stories 5, ed. James Blish, Doubleday and various
subsequent edns). 1970 (in World's Best Science Fiction 1970, ed. Donald
A Wollheim & Terry Carr, Ace pb and various subsequent edns). 1970 (in Best
SF: 1969, ed. Harry Harrison & Brian W. Aldiss, Putnam hb, Berkley pb).
1971 (in The Dead Astronaut, Playboy Press pb). 1973 (with afterword—see
G12.—in Those Who Can, ed. Robin Scott Wilson, Mentor pb). 1973 (in The
Best From Playboy Number 7, Playboy Press). 1974 (in As Tomorrow Becomes
Today, ed. Charles William Sullivan III, Prentice-Hall). 1974 (in Introducing
Psychology Through Science Fiction, ed. Harvey A. Katz et al., Rand-McNally).
1974 (in Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye, ed. Stephen V. Whaley
and Stanley J. Cook, McGraw-Hill). 1974 (in Modern Science Fiction, ed.
Norman Spinrad, Anchor Books). 1975 (in Dreams Awake, ed. Leslie A.
Fiedler, Dell pb). Collected, with some cuts restored, in C3.
#16. The End (short story). 1970 (in Orbit 6, ed. Damon Knight, Putnam
hb. Berkley pb). 1975 (in The Best From Orbit, ed. Damon Knight,
Berkley-Putnam hb). (Collected in C3 under author's title, Things.)
#17. The Good Trip (short story). Aug 1970 (in Fantastic magazine).
1972 (as "Voyage," tr. Alain le Bussy, in L'Aube Enclavée
magazine, No. 4) 1973 (as "Voyage," same tr., in Derrière le
néant, ed. Henry-Luc Planchat: Verviers: Bibliothèque Marabout). 1974 (in Dream
Trips, ed. Michel Parry, UK: Panther). Collected in C3.
#18. A Trip to the Head (short story). 1970 (in Quark/#1, ed. Samuel
R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library pb). 1974 (in The Liberated
Future, ed. Robert Hoskins, Fawcett Crest pb). Collected in C3.
#19. The Tombs of Atuan (novel). Winter 1970-71 (in Worlds of Fantasy
No. 3, magazine). 1971 (Atheneum hb). 1972 (UK: Gollancz hb). 1974 (UK:
Penguin/Puffin). 1974 (UK: Heinemann Educational Books hb). 1974 (as De
Tomben van Atuan, tr. F. Oomes, Utrecht/ Antwerpen: Het Spectrum).
#20. The Lathe of Heaven (novel). March & May 1971 (in Amazing
magazine). 1971 (Scribner's hb). 1971 (SFBC as pbd by Scribner's, hb). 1972 (UK:
Gollancz hb). 1973 (Avon pb). 1975 (UK: Panther pb). 1974 (as La falce dei
cieli, tr. Riccardo Valla, Milano: Nord). 1974 (as Meester Dromer,
tr. C. Suurmeijer, Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum).
#21. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (short story). Nov 1971 (in New
Dimensions 1, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday hb, Avon pb). 1972 (in The
Best Science Fiction of the Year, ed. Terry Carr, Ballantine pb). 1973 (tr.
into Japanese, as "teikoku yorimo okiku yuruyakami", in S-F Oct
1973). 1974 (in Wondermakers 2, ed. Robert Hoskins, Fawcett pb). 1975 (in
Explorers of Space, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson hb). Collected,
slightly cut, in C3.
#22. The Farthest Shore (novel). 1972 (Atheneum hb). 1972 (Junior Literary
Guild, as pbd by Atheneum, hb). 1973 (UK: Gollancz hb). 1974 (UK: Puffin/Penguin
pb). 1974 (as Konig van Aardzee, Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum pb).
1975 (UK: Heinemann Educational Books hb). (Author's title: The Farthest West.)
#23. The Word for World is Forest (long story). 1972 (in Again, Dangerous
Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday hb). 1973 (in Again, Dangerous
Visions, Volume I, ed. Harlan Ellison, Signet pb). With "Afterword"—see
G5. (Author's title: The Little Green Men.)
#24. Cake & Ice Cream (short story). Feb-Mar 1973 (in Playgirl
magazine).
#25. Imaginary Countries (short story). Winter 1973 (in The Harvard
Advocate magazine). [According to a communication by the author, written ca.
1960.]
#26. Direction of the Road (short story). 1973 (in Orbit 12, ed. Damon
Knight, Putnam hb and various subsequent edns). Collected in C3.
#27. Field of Vision (short story). Oct 1973 (in Galaxy magazine).
1974 (in The Best From Galaxy, Volume II, Award pb). (Author's title: The
Field of Vision—collected in C3 under that title.)
#28. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas: Variations on a Theme by William
James (short story). Oct 1973 (in New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg,
SFBC as Nelson Doubleday hb, Signet pb). 1974 (in The Best Science Fiction of
the Year #3, ed. Terry Carr, Ballantine pb). 1975 (as "Ceux qui partent
d'Omélas ...", tr. by Henri-Luc Planchat, in La frontière avenir,
ed. H.-L. Planchat, Paris: Seghers pb). Collected in C3.
#29. The Stars Below (short story). 1974 (in Orbit 14, ed. Damon
Knight, Harper & Row hb). Collected in C3.
#30. The Dispossessed (novel). 1974 (Harper & Row hb). 1974 (Toronto:
Fitzhenry & Whiteside hb). 1974 (SFBC as pbd by Harper & Row hb). 1974
(Harper & Row hb). 1974 (UK: Gollancz hb). 1975 (Avon pb).
#31. The Day Before the Revolution (short story). Aug 1974 (in Galaxy
magazine). 1975 (in Bitches and Sad Ladies, ed. Pat Rotter, Harper's
Magazine Press hb, & Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside). Collected in C3.
#32. Intracom (short story). 1974 (in Stop Watch, ed. George Hay, UK:
New English Library hb).
#33. The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of
the Association of Therolinguistics (short story). 1974 (in Fellowship of
the Stars, ed. Terry Carr, Simon & Schuster hb & SFBC as pbd by
Simon & Schuster). 1975 (in Best Science Fiction of the Year #4, ed.
Terry Carr, Ballantine pb).
#34. Schrödinger's Cat (short story). 1974 (in Universe 5, ed. Terry
Carr, Random House hb and various subsequent edns).
#35. The New Atlantis (short story). 1975 (in The New Atlantis, ed.
Robert Silverberg, Hawthorn hb and SFBC as pbd by Hawthorn, hb).
G1 -G30. General
G1. Review of Jean Lemaire de Belges:"Le Temple d'honneur et de
vertus," ed. Henri Hornik. Romanic Review, 49(Oct 1948):210-11.
G2. A Scene from an Opera (in verse). The Minority of One, 3(Aug
1961):9.
G3. Prophets and Mirrors (essay). The Living Light (Fall 1970):111-21.
G4. [Interview & Response to questionnaire]. Entropy Negative, No.
3, (1971):(17-26).
G5. [Response to questionnaire on SF]. Colloquy, 4(May 1971):7.
G6. "Afterward" to "The Word for World is Forest" (see
#23).
G7. The Crab Nebula, the Paramecium, and Tolstoy (essay). Riverside
Quarterly, 5(Feb 1972):89-96. See also C1.
G8. National Book Award Acceptance Speech. Horn Book, 49(June 1973):
239; SFWA Bulletin, No. 47-48(Summer 1973):32; Algol, No. 21(Nov
1973): 14; Orbit 14, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1974, p.2.
G9. On Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream (review). SFS 1(Spring
1973): 41-44.
G10. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (essay pbd as chapbook). Portland:
Pendragon Press, 1973.
G11. A Citizen of Mondath (essay). Foundation, No. 4 (July 1973):20-24.
G12. Surveying the Battlefield (essay). SFS 1(Fall 1973):88-90.
G13. On Theme (essay). In Those Who Can, ed. Robin Scott Wilson,
Mentor, 1973, pp. 203-09.
G14. Dreams Must Explain Themselves (essay). Algol, No. 21 (Nov 1973):
7-10, 12, 14.
G15. Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons? (essay). PNLA Quarterly,
38(Winter 1974):14-18; as "This Fear of Dragons," in The Thorny
Paradise, ed. Edward Blishen, UK: Kestrel Books, 1975, pp. 87-92.
G16. The Staring Eye (essay about Tolkien). Vector, No. 67-68 (Spring
1974):5-7.
G18. Science Fiction Tomorrow (essay). Christian Science Monitor, July
18, 1974.
G19. Escape Routes (essay). Galaxy, 35(Dec 1974):40-44.
G20. Science Fiction and the Future of Anarchy (conversations with Ursula K.
Le Guin by Charles Bigelow and J. McMahon). Oregon Times (Dec 1974):24-29.
G21. The Child and the Shadow (essay). The Quarterly Journal of the
Library of Congress, 32(April 1975): (139)-148.
G22. Tricks, anthropology create new worlds (interview by Barry Barth). Portland
Scribe, 4(May 17-25, 1975):8-9.
G23. Ursula K. Le Guin: Interviewed by Jonathan Ward. Algol, 12(Summer
1975):6-10.
G24. SF in a Political-Science Textbook (review). SFS 2(March
1975):93-94.
G25. Ketterer on The Left Hand of Darkness (essay). SFS 2(July
1975): 137-39.
G26. [Letter]. Galaxy, 36(Aug 1975):157.
G27. American SF and the Other. (essay). SFS 2(Nov 1975):208-10.
G28. Is Gender Necessary? (essay). (Forthcoming in Susan J. Anderson and
Vonda McIntyre eds., Aurora: Beyond Equality, Fawcett.)
G29. Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown (essay). (Forthcoming in a collection of
speeches on SF, ed. Peter Nicholls, UK: Gollancz.)
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