The Unreal and the Real
Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
Saga Press One-Volume Edition
Publication date: 18 October 2016
Table of Contents
Volume One: What on Earth
Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
Ebook and audiobook via Small Beer Press
Small Beer Press
November 30, 2012
Awards, Reviews, & Essays
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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2018 Award Shortlist for The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin box set: The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real.
10 November 2017
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Starred Review at Publishers Weekly
19 October 2016
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Ken Kesey Award shortlist: Oregon Book Award finalists announced: Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Szybist lead the list, by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian. UKL is a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, for The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories Volume 1 and 2.
7 January 2014
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The Unreal and the Real, reviewed by Gary K. Wolfe, at Locus Magazine.
24 December 2012
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Review of The Unreal and the Real, by Tobias Carroll, Minneapolis StarTribune.
24 December 2012
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The Real and Unreal: Ursula K. Le Guin, American Novelist — A major essay by Julie Phillips (author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon)
3 December 2012
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The Slate Book Review Top 10 of 2012
3 December 2012
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Dragons of the Everyday, review of The Unreal and the Real, by Tom Shippey, Wall Street Journal. “Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.”
24 November 2012
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“Ursula K Le Guin: stories for the ages,” by Damien Walter, The Guardian online.
8 November 2012
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No Better Spirit, The Unreal and the Real reviewed by Choire Sicha at slate.com
7 November 2012
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Bookmarks: Ursula K. Le Guin’s two-volume selected stories due out in November, a review by Jeff Baker, The Oregonian.
27 October 2012
Some of the stories begin....
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years,” she read, “and on Gethen there has never been a war.”
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On a sunny morning of 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio, it was raining in Krasnoy and the streets between grey walls were full of men.
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Bela ten Belen went on a foray with five companions.
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“You fell out of the sky,” the coyote said.
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The silence of the Asonu is proverbial.
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Jim remembers it as a bobcat, and he was May’s nephew, and ought to know.
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“Small change,” my aunt said as I put the obol on her tongue. “I’ll need more than that where I’m going.”
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I never go in the Two Blue Moons any more.
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Although I have no intention of publishing this report, I think it would be nice if a grandchild of mine, or somebody’s grandchild, happened to find it some day, so I shall keep it in the leather trunk in the attic, along with Rosita’s christening dress and Juanito’s silver rattle and my wedding shoes and finneskos.
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She was alive inside but dead outside, her face a black and dun net of wrinkles, tumors, cracks.
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With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea.
Tables of Contents
Volume One: What on Earth
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Brothers and Sisters
A Week in the Country
Unlocking the Air
Imaginary Countries
The Diary of the Rose
The Direction of the Road
The White Donkey
Gwilan’s Harp
Mays Lion
Buffalo Gals
Horse Camp
The Lost Children
The Water is Wide
Texts
Sleepwalkers
Hand, Cup, Shell
Ether, OR
Half Past Four
Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands
Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Semley’s Necklace
Nine Lives
Mazes
The First Contact with the Gorgonids
The Shobies’ Story
Betrayals
The Matter of Seggre
Solitude
The Wild Girls
The Fliers of Gy
The Silence of the Asonu
The Ascent of the North Face
The Author of the Acacia Seeds
The Wife’s Story
The Rule of Names
Small Change
The Poacher
Sur
She Unnames Them
Saga Press One-Volume Edition
Volume One at Powell’s Books
Volume Two at Powell’s Books
