Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist. Her writing depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.[1]
Powers[]
Metamorphmagus.[2]
Novels[]
Earthsea fantasy series[]
- A Wizard of Earthsea, 1968 (named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1979)
- Tombs of Atuan, 1971 (Newbery Silver Medal Award)
- The Farthest Shore, 1972 (National Book Award)
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea, 1990 (Nebula Award; Locus Fantasy Award)
- Tales from Earthsea, 2001 (short stories)
- The Other Wind, 2001 (World Fantasy Award, 2002)
Hainish science fiction series[]
- Rocannon's World, 1966
- Planet of Exile, 1966
- City of Illusions, 1967
- The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969 (Hugo Award; Nebula Award)
- The Dispossessed, 1974 (Nebula Award; Hugo Award; Locus Award)
- The Word for World Is Forest, 1976 (Hugo Award, best novella)
- Four Ways to Forgiveness, 1995 (Four Stories of the Ekumen)
- The Telling, 2000 (Locus SF Award; Endeavour Award)
Miscellaneous[]
- The Lathe of Heaven, 1971 (Locus SF Award)
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters, 1975
- Orsinian Tales, 1976
- The Eye of the Heron, 1978 (first published in the anthology Millennial Women)
- The Beginning Place, 1980 (also published as Threshold, 1986)
- The Compass Rose, 1982
- Always Coming Home, 1985
- Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand, 1991
- The Birthday of the World: and Other Stories, 2002
- Annals of the Western Shore, 2004–2007 (Powers, the third volume, won the Nebula Award for Best Novel)
- Lavinia, 2008 (Locus Fantasy Award)
References[]
- ↑ Wikipedia:Le Guin
- ↑ Wikia: Metamorphmagus