
Ursula K. Le Guin is an American author of science fiction, fantasy and children’s books, as well as a poet. Her trademarks involving imagining new worlds with unique politics, environments, genders, religions, sexualities and cultures. Ursula is best known for her Hainish and Earthsea series. Her influences include Philip K. Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling and Norse mythology. She has influenced authors like Neil Gaiman, Iain Banks and Christopher Paolini.
Ursula became a published author in 1959 with the poem Folksong from the Montayna Province. Her first novel was the beginning of her Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World – quickly followed by Planet of Exile. Both novels were published in 1966. Below is a list of Ursula K. Le Guin’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Earthsea Cycle Books
Publication Order of Earthsea Collections
Publication Order of Earthsea Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Earthsea Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Catwings Books
Publication Order of Catwings Collections
Publication Order of Hainish Cycle Books
Publication Order of Adventures In Kroy Books
Publication Order of Annals Of The Western Shore Books
Publication Order of Orsinia Books
Publication Order of Unreal and The Real Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Publication Order of Picture Books
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of About Writing Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
Publication Order of Nebula Awards Books
Publication Order of The O. Henry Prize Anthology Books
Publication Order of The WisCon Chronicles Books
Publication Order of Outspoken Authors Books
Publication Order of Legends Books
(with Diana Gabaldon, Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Haydon)
Publication Order of Anthologies
Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader | (1973) |    |
Wondermakers 2 | (1974) |    |
Beyond Tomorrow | (1976) |    |
The Altered I | (1978) |    |
Edges | (1980) |    |
Interfaces | (1980) |    |
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12 | (1983) |    |
Great Fantasy | (1983) |    |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection | (1985) |    |
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction | (1985) |    |
Terry's Universe: Science fiction's finest writers join in honoring the memory of Terry Carr | (1987) |    |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection | (1988) |    |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | (1988) |    |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) |    |
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats | (1988) |    |
Flights of Fancy | (1993) |    |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) |    |
The Norton Book of Science Fiction | (1993) |    |
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) |    |
Crank! Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1994 | (1994) |    |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) |    |
Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994 | (1994) |    |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1994 | (1994) |    |
Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995 | (1995) |    |
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 1995 | (1995) |    |
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women | (1995) |    |
Year's Best SF | (1996) |    |
The Year's Best Science Fiction, Thirteenth Annual Collection | (1996) |    |
Mystery Stories | (1996) |    |
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1996 | (1996) |    |
Modern Classics of Fantasy | (1997) |    |
Wild Women | (1997) |    |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | (1998) |    |
Far Horizons | (1999) |    |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (1999) |    |
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th Anniversary Anthology | (1999) |    |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) |    |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) |    |
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Volume 104 Number 2, February 2003 | (2003) |    |
New Magics | (2004) |    |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection | (2004) |    |
In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2004) |    |
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction | (2005) |    |
12 Short Stories and Their Making: An Anthology with Interviews | (2005) |    |
The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy | (2006) |    |
The Space Opera Renaissance | (2006) |    |
The Best of the Best, Vol 2 | (2007) |    |
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 | (2007) |    |
The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 | (2007) |    |
The Secret History of Science Fiction | (2009) |    |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) |    |
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women | (2010) |    |
The Moment of Change | (2012) |    |
Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology | (2013) |    |
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2013 | (2013) |    |
The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women | (2014) |    |
The World Split Open | (2014) |    |
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology | (2015) |    |
Women of Futures Past | (2016) |    |
PEN America Issue 21: Mythologies | (2018) |    |
Think in Public | (2019) |    |
Notes: Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was also published as A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else. The Beginning Place is also titled Threshold. The Visionary, Wonders Hidden was co-authored with Scott Russell Sanders. Dragon Lords and Warrior Women was co-authored with Katharine Kerr, Vonda N. McIntyre and Sherwood Smith. The World Split Open also includes contributions by Edward P. Jones, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson and Wallace Stegner.
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