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Acquisitions (104): Ursula K. Le Guin


Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (2024)

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (2024)
[Amazon.com.au, ordered 14/3/24 - arrived 22/3/24]:

Ursula K. Le Guin. Five Novels: The Lathe of Heaven; The Eye of the Heron; The Beginning Place; Searoad; Lavinia. Ed. Brian Attebery. 1971, 1978, 1980, 1991, 2008. The Library of America, 379. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2024.

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

LOA meets U. K. L-G


Nobody could accuse the 45-year-old Library of America [LOA] (1979- ) of lacking ambition when it comes to its decade-long Le Guin project. Starting in 2016, well before Le Guin's death in 2018, the library has projected a comprehensive eight-volume edition, covering most of her work - with the exception of the Earthsea books, still in print from another publisher, as well as her extensive work as an essayist and writer of children's fiction.

But perhaps it'd be simpler if I just quoted the salient parts of this 2020 article from the Tor Books website:
Library of America has begun publishing more genre fiction in recent years, including the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. According to Associate Editor Stefanie Peters, the nonprofit publisher has four more volumes of the late author’s work coming in the next couple of years.
LOA has already published four volumes of Le Guin’s work: The Complete Orsinia, Always Coming Home, and Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One and Two.
The next volume, Peters says, publishes October 6th, and will include Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore trilogy, the first time that those books have been brought together into one volume. That trilogy is comprised of her novels Gifts, Voices, and Powers, set in an unnamed magical world, and which follow a series of characters as they contend with racism and slavery, as well as the powers that they have acquired.
“We also took Le Guin’s hand drawn maps from the books,” Peters says “plus one new map that hasn’t been published before — and colorized them, as we’ve done with our preview Le Guin volumes. They will appear as some really attractive endpapers in this edition.”
Beyond this upcoming edition, LOA will publish an additional three volumes of Le Guin’s work: one including all of her poetry, a collection of her complete short stories, and a collection of novels that brings together Lavinia, Searoad, The Lathe of Heaven, The Eye of the Heron, and The Beginning Place.
Library of America’s books will join some other major collections of Le Guin’s work. Saga Press recently released a collected edition of Le Guin’s Earthsea novels and short stories, as well as two massive collections of her shorter works: The Found and the Lost, and The Unreal and the Real, while The Folio Society has released a trio of new editions of her books The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Dispossessed.


Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (1985)


I've already written a post or two about my own love of Le Guin's work: a general one on The Imaginary Museum (14/10/18), but also another on the connections between her family, the Kroebers, and Ishi, the (so-called) 'last wild Indian in America.'

This piece is intended to be more narrowly bibliographical. I got interested in the dynamics of putting together 'a collection of her complete short stories', as promised above, and thought it might be interesting to compile a list of her work in that genre focussed around the volumes of the LOA collected edition which have already appeared.

Presumably, for instance, the LOA complete short stories would not have to include any of the 13 Orsinian Tales which have already appeared in print in their Orsinia volume. Then there are another 16 SF stories in their double-volume Hainish Novels & Stories. As well as that, there are the 12 stories which make up Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991), reprinted in their latest volume, Five Novels (2024).

You'll see from the lists included below that Le Guin published at least seven major short story collections in her lifetime - not to mention a two-volume Selected Stories, together with a book of her collected novellas:
  1. The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [W] (17)
  2. The Compass Rose (1982) [R] (20)
  3. Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) [G] (11)
  4. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) [F] (8)
  5. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) [U] (18)
  6. The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002) [B] (8)
  7. Changing Planes: Stories (2003) [C] (16)
  8. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories. 2 Vols (2012) [T] (39)
  9. The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas (2016) [N] (13)
That's not counting the following themed collections, some of them already mentioned above:
  1. Orsinian Tales (1976) - included in The Complete Orsinia (2016) [O] (13)
  2. Always Coming Home (1985) - included in Always Coming Home: Author’s Expanded Edition (2019) [A] (5)
  3. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991) - included in Five Novels (2024) [K] (12)
  4. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) - included in Hainish Novels & Stories (2017) [H] (16)
  5. Tales from Earthsea (2001) - included in The Books of Earthsea (2018) [E] (9)
If you look at the preliminary list of stories I've compiled below - with the aid of Wikipedia's very useful Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography - you'll see that it includes 142 stories (give or take a few, due to the reshaping and subsequent re-ordering of certain pieces).

If we subtract from these 55 stories already collected elsewhere in the LOA edition and the Books of Earthsea, then we're left with 87 to put into the stand-alone LOA Complete Stories book. Is that possible? Who knows? It certainly bids fair to be the heftiest volume in the entire edition, if so.

But then, given the girth of some of the earlier publications in the series - their collected Hawthorne (1494 pp.) or Poe (1408 pp.), for instance - that mightn't be too anomalous.


Sara Letourneau: Thank You, Ursula K. Le Guin (2018)



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Dana Gluckstein: Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
(1929-2018)


Collections:
  1. The Complete Orsinia (1961-2016)
  2. The Hainish Novels & Stories (1964-2017)
  3. The Books of Earthsea (1964-2018)
  4. Always Coming Home (1983-2019)
  5. Annals of the Western Shore (2004-2020)
  6. Collected Poems (1959-2023)
  7. Novels (1971-2024)
  8. Stories (1961-2018)
  9. Miscellaneous


Books I own are marked in bold:

    Ursula K. Le Guin: The Complete Orsinia (2016)

    Orsinia
    (1961-2016)


  1. The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena; Stories and Songs. Ed. Brian Attebery. Library of America, 281 (2016) [O]
    1. Malafrena (1979)
    2. Songs:
      1. Folk Song from the Montayna Province (1959)
      2. Red Berries (Montayna Province) (2016)
      3. The Walls of Rákava (Polana Province) (2016)
    3. Stories:
        Orsinian Tales (1976)
      1. The Fountains (1976)
      2. The Barrow (1976)
      3. Ile Forest (1976)
      4. Conversations At Night (1976)
      5. The Road East (1976)
      6. Brothers and Sisters (1976)
      7. A Week in the Country (1976)
      8. An die Musik (1961)
      9. The House (1976)
      10. The Lady of Moge (1976)
      11. Imaginary Countries (1973)
        12. Other Stories
      12. Two Delays on the Northern Line (1979)
      13. Unlocking the Air (1990)
    • The Complete Orsinia: Malafrena; Stories and Songs. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 281. 1979, 1976. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2016.
  2. Malafrena (1979)
    • Malafrena. 1979. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1981.
  3. Orsinian Tales (1976)
    1. The Fountains (1976)
    2. The Barrow (1976)
    3. Ile Forest (1976) (1976)
    4. Conversations At Night (1976)
    5. The Road East (1976)
    6. Brothers and Sisters (1976)
    7. A Week in the Country (1976)
    8. An die Musik (1961)
    9. The House (1976)
    10. The Lady of Moge (1976)
    11. Imaginary Countries (1973)
    • Orsinian Tales. 1976. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1978.


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Stories (2017)

    The Hainish Cycle
    (1964-2017)


  4. The Hainish Novels & Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery. 2 vols. Library of America, 296-97 (2017) [H]

      Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Stories I (2017)


    1. Vol. 1:
      1. Rocannon's World (1964)
      2. Planet of Exile (1966)
      3. City of Illusions (1967)
      4. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
      5. The Dispossessed (1974)
      6. Stories:
        1. Winter’s King (1969)
        2. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)
        3. The Day Before the Revolution (1974)
        4. Coming of Age in Karhide (1995)
      7. Appendix:
        1. Introduction to Rocannon’s World
        2. Introduction to Planet of Exile
        3. Introduction to City of Illusions
        4. Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness
        5. A Response, by Ansible, from Tau Ceti
        6. Is Gender Necessary? Redux
        7. Winter’s King (1969 version)

      2. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels & Stories II (2017)


    2. Vol. 2:
      1. The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
      2. Stories:
        1. The Shobies’ Story (1990)
        2. Dancing to Ganam (1993)
        3. Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
        4. Unchosen Love (1994)
        5. Mountain Ways (1996)
        6. The Matter of Seggri (1994)
        7. Solitude (1994)
      3. Story Suite: Five Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
        1. Betrayals (1994)
        2. Forgiveness Day (1994)
        3. A Man of the People (1995)
        4. A Woman's Liberation (1995)
        5. Old Music and the Slave Women (1996)
      4. The Telling (2000)
      5. Appendix:
        1. Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest
        2. On Not Reading Science Fiction
      • The Hainish Novels & Stories, vol. 1: Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions; The Left Hand of Darkness; The Dispossessed; Stories. 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 296. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.
      • The Hainish Novels & Stories, vol. 2: The Word for World is Forest; Five Ways to Forgiveness; The Telling; Stories. 1977, 1995, 2000. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 297. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2017.
  5. Rocannon's World (1964)
    • Rocannon's World. 1964. A Star Book. London: W. H. Allen & Co., Ltd. 1980.
    • Included in: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions. 1964, 1966, 1967. An Orb Book. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.
  6. Planet of Exile (1966)
    • Planet of Exile / Thomas M. Disch. Mankind under the Leash. Ace Double. New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1966.
    • Included in: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions. 1964, 1966, 1967. An Orb Book. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.
  7. City of Illusions (1967)
    • City of Illusions. 1967. Panther Science Fiction. St Albans, Herts: Panther Books, 1973.
    • Included in: Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions. 1964, 1966, 1967. An Orb Book. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.
  8. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
    • The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969. Panther Science Fiction. St Albans, Herts: Panther Books, 1975.
    • The Left Hand of Darkness. 1969. Orbit. London: Little, Brown Book Group, 2006.
  9. The Dispossessed (1974)
    • The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. 1974. Panther Science Fiction. St Albans, Herts: Panther Books, 1975.
  10. The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
    • The Word for World is Forest. 1977. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1980.
  11. Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
    1. Betrayals (1994)
    2. Forgiveness Day (1994)
    3. A Man of the People (1995)
    4. A Woman's Liberation (1995)
    5. Old Music and the Slave Women (1996)
    • Four Ways to Forgiveness. 1995. HarperPrism. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
  12. The Telling (2000)
    • The Telling. 2000. London: Gollancz, 2003.


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: The Books of Earthsea. Illustrated by Charles Vess (2018)

    Earthsea
    (1964-2018)


  13. The Books of Earthsea. Illustrated by Charles Vess (2018) [E]
    1. A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
    2. The Tombs of Atuan (1971)
    3. The Farthest Shore (1972)
    4. Tehanu (1990)
    5. Tales from Earthsea (2001)
      1. The Finder (2001)
      2. Darkrose and Diamond (1999)
      3. The Bones of the Earth (2001)
      4. On the High Marsh (2001)
      5. Dragonfly (1998)
    6. The Other Wind (2001)
    7. A Description of Earthsea (2001)
    8. The Word of Unbinding (1964)
    9. The Rule of Names (1964)
    10. The Daughter of Odren (2014)
    11. Firelight (2018)
    12. Earthsea Revisioned (1993)
    • The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition – A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore: Tehanu; Tales of Earthsea; The Other Wind. 1968, 1972, 1973, 1990, 2001, 2001. Illustrated by Charles Vess. USA: Saga Press, 2018.
  14. A Wizard of Earthsea. Illustrated by Ruth Robbins (1968)
    • A Wizard of Earthsea. 1968. Drawings by Ruth Robbins. Puffin Books, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore. 1979. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore: Tehanu. 1968, 1972, 1973, 1990. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
  15. The Tombs of Atuan. Illustrated by Gail Garraty (1971)
    • The Tombs of Atuan. 1971. Puffin Books, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore. 1979. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore: Tehanu. 1968, 1972, 1973, 1990. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
  16. The Farthest Shore. Illustrated by Gail Garraty (1972)
    • The Farthest Shore. 1972. Puffin Books, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Trilogy: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore. 1979. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore: Tehanu. 1968, 1972, 1973, 1990. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
  17. Tehanu. Illustrated by John Jude Palencar (1990)
    • Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990.
    • Included in: The Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard of Earthsea; The Tombs of Atuan; The Farthest Shore: Tehanu. 1968, 1972, 1973, 1990. A Puffin Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993.
  18. Tales from Earthsea. Illustrated by Kelly Nelson (2001)
    1. The Finder (2001)
    2. Darkrose and Diamond (1999)
    3. The Bones of the Earth (2001)
    4. On the High Marsh (2001)
    5. Dragonfly (1998)
    6. A Description of Earthsea (2001)
    • Tales from Earthsea. 2001. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2002.
  19. The Other Wind. Illustrated by Cliff Nielsen (2001)
    • The Other Wind. 2001. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2002.


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (2019)

    Always Coming Home
    (1983-2019)


  20. Always Coming Home: Author’s Expanded Edition. Ed. Brian Attebery. Library of America, 315 (2019) [A]
    1. Always Coming Home (1985)
      1. The Trouble with the Cotton People (Winter 1984)
      2. The Visionary (Winter 1984)
      3. Time in the Valley (Winter 1985)
    2. Pandora Revisits the Kesh and Comes Back with New Texts (2017):
      1. Dangerous People (1985)
      2. Some Kesh Meditations
      3. Blood Lodge Songs
      4. Kesh Syntax
    3. Other Writing Related to Always Coming Home:
      1. May’s Lion (1983)
      2. Navna: The River-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan
      3. World-Making
    4. Essays:
      1. A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
      2. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
      3. Text, Silence, Performance
      4. Legends for a New Land
      5. The Making of Always Coming Home
      6. Indian Uncles
    • Always Coming Home: Author’s Expanded Edition. 1985. Ed. Brian Attebery. The Library of America, 315. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2019.
  21. Always Coming Home (1985)
    • Always Coming Home. Artist: Margaret Chodos. Composer: Todd Baron. Geomancer: George Hersh. 1985. London: Victor Gollancz, 1986.
    • Always Coming Home. Artist; Margaret Chodos. Composer: Todd Barton. Geomancer: George Hersh. Maps drawn by the Author. 1985. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
  22. Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range. Text from Always Coming Home with photographs by Ernest Waugh and Allan Nicholson [chapbook] (1989)


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Annals of the Western Shore (2020)



  23. Annals of the Western Shore. Gifts; Voices; Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery. Library of America, 335 (2020)
    1. Gifts (2004)
    2. Voices (2006)
    3. Powers (2007)
    4. Talks and Interviews about the Novels:
      1. The Young Adult in the YA (2004)
      2. Some Assumptions about Fantasy (2004)
      3. Interview with Paola Castagno (2006)
      4. Interview with Brian Attebery (2007)
      5. Interview with Alexander Chee (2008)
    • Annals of the Western Shore. Gifts; Voices; Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery. 2004, 2006, 2007. The Library of America, 335. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2020.
  24. Gifts. Annals of the Western Shore (2004)
    • Gifts. Annals of the Western Shore, 1. 2004. Orlando, Fl: Harcourt, Inc., 2006.
  25. Voices. Annals of the Western Shore (2006)
    • Voices. Annals of the Western Shore, 2. 2006. Orion Children's Books. London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd., Inc., 2007.
  26. Powers. Annals of the Western Shore (2007)
    • Powers. Annals of the Western Shore, 3. 2007. Orion Children's Books. London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd., Inc., 2008.


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems (2023)

    Poetry
    (1959-2023)


  27. Collected Poems. Ed. Harold Bloom. Library of America, 368 (2023)
    1. Wild Angels (1975)
    2. Hard Words (1981)
    3. Wild Oats and Fireweed (1988)
    4. No Boats (1993)
    5. Going Out with Peacocks (1994)
    6. Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts (1995)
    7. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (1997)
    8. Sixty Odd (1999)
    9. Incredible Good Fortune (2006)
    10. Poems from Out Here and Finding My Elegy (2010 & 2012)
    11. Late in the Day (2015)
    12. So Far So Good (2018)
    13. Uncollected Poems
    • Collected Poems. Ed. Harold Bloom. The Library of America, 368. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2023.
  28. Wild Angels (1975)
    • Wild Angels. 1975. In The Capra Chapbook Anthology. Ed. Noel Young. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1979.
  29. Walking in Cornwall [chapbook] (1976)
  30. [with Theodora Kroeber] Tillai and Tylissos [chapbook] (1979)
  31. Hard Words and Other Poems (1981)
  32. [with Theodora Kroeber] In the Red Zone [chapbook] (1983)
  33. Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems (1988)
  34. [with Vonda McIntyre] A Winter Solstice Ritual [chapbook] (1991)
  35. [with Vonda McIntyre] No Boats [chapbook] (1992)
  36. Blue Moon over Thurman Street. Illustrated by Roger Dorband [chapbook] (1993)
  37. Going out with Peacocks and Other Poems (1994)
  38. [with Diana Bellessi] The Twins, The Dream: Two Voices/Las Gemelas, El Sueño: Dos Voces (1997)
  39. [Trans.] Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching (1997)
    • Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. A Book about the Way & the Power of the Way. Trans. Ursula K. Le Guin, with J. P. Seaton. 1997. Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1998.
  40. Sixty Odd (1999)
  41. [Trans.] Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral (2003)
  42. [Trans.] Angélica Gorodischer. Kalpa Imperial (2003)
  43. Incredible Good Fortune (2006)
  44. Four Different Poems (2007)
  45. Out Here: Poems and Images from Steens Mountain Country. Illustrated with photographs by Roger Dorband (2010)
  46. Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems (2012)
  47. [Trans., with Mariano Martín Rodríguez] Gheorghe Săsărman. Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (2013)
  48. Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 (2015)
  49. So Far So Good: Poems 2014–2018 (2018)


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Five Novels (2024)

    Novels
    (1971-2024)


  50. Five Novels: The Lathe of Heaven; The Eye of the Heron; The Beginning Place; Searoad; Lavinia. Ed. Brian Attebery. Library of America, 379 (2024)
    1. The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
    2. The Eye of the Heron (1978)
    3. The Beginning Place (1980)
    4. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)
      1. Foam Women, Rain Women (1991)
      2. The Ship Ahoy (1987)
      3. Hand, Cup, Shell (1989)
      4. Geezers (1991)
      5. In and Out (1989)
      6. Bill Weisler (1990)
      7. True Love (1991)
      8. Sleepwalkers (1991)
      9. Quoits (1991)
      10. Crosswords (1990)
      11. Texts (1990)
      12. Hernes (1991)
      13. Biographies (1991)
    5. Lavinia (2008)
    6. Related Essays:
      1. The Child and the Shadow
      2. Working on “The Lathe”
      3. The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
    • Five Novels: The Lathe of Heaven; The Eye of the Heron; The Beginning Place; Searoad; Lavinia. Ed. Brian Attebery. 1971, 1978, 1980, 1991, 2008. The Library of America, 379. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2024.
  51. The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
    • The Lathe of Heaven. 1971. Panther Science Fiction. St Albans, Herts: Panther Books, 1974.
    • The Lathe of Heaven. 1971. Gollancz SF. London: Victor Gollancz, 1979.
  52. The Eye of the Heron (1978)
    • [with others]. The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. Ed. Virginia Kidd. [aka ‘Millennial Women’, 1978]. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1980.
  53. The Beginning Place [aka Threshold] (1980)
    • Threshold. As ‘The Beginning Place’. 1980. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1982.
  54. Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991) [K]
    1. Foam Women, Rain Women (1991)
    2. The Ship Ahoy (1987)
    3. Hand, Cup, Shell (1989)
    4. Geezers (1991)
    5. In and Out (1989)
    6. Bill Weisler (1990)
    7. True Love (1991)
    8. Sleepwalkers (1991)
    9. Quoits (1991)
    10. Crosswords (1990)
    11. Texts (1990)
    12. Hernes (1991)
    • Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand. 1991. London: Victor Gollancz, 1992.
  55. Lavinia (2008)
    • Lavinia. 2008. Mariner Books. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2009.


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wind's Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose (2015)

    Stories
    (1961-2018)


    Collections:

  56. The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) [W]
    1. Semley's Necklace (1964)
    2. April in Paris (1962)
    3. The Masters (1963)
    4. Darkness Box (1963)
    5. The Word of Unbinding (1964)
    6. The Rule of Names (1964)
    7. Winter's King (1969)
    8. The Good Trip (1970)
    9. Nine Lives (1969)
    10. Things (1970)
    11. A Trip to the Head (1970)
    12. Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971)
    13. The Stars Below (1974)
    14. The Field of Vision (1973)
    15. Direction of the Road (1973)
    16. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
    17. The Day Before the Revolution (1974)
    • The Wind's Twelve Quarters. 1975. 2 Vols. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1978.
    • The Wind's Twelve Quarters. 1975. VGSF. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1989.
  57. The Water is Wide [chapbook] (1976)
  58. The Compass Rose (1982) [R]
      Nadir
    1. 'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974)
    2. The New Atlantis (1975)
    3. Schrödinger's Cat (1974)
      4. North
    4. Two Delays on the Northern Line (1979)
    5. SQ (1978)
    6. Small Change (1981)
      7. East
    7. The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb (1978)
    8. The Diary of the Rose (1976)
    9. The White Donkey (1980)
    10. The Phoenix (1982)
      11. Zenith
    11. Intracom (1974)
    12. The Eye Altering (1974)
    13. Mazes (1975)
    14. The Pathways of Desire (1979)
      15. West
    15. Gwilan's Harp (1977)
    16. Malheur County (1979)
    17. The Water Is Wide (1976)
      18. South
    18. The Wife's Story (1982)
    19. Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time (1979)
    20. Sur (1982)
    • The Compass Rose: Short Stories. 1982. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.
    • The Compass Rose. 1982. Panther Books. London: Granada Publishing, 1984.
  59. Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987) [G]
      Come Into Animal Presences, by Denise Levertov (1961)
      I. "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"
    1. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987)
      2. II. Three Rock Poems
    2. The Basalt (1982)
    3. Flints (1987)
    4. Mt. St. Helens/Omphalos (1975)
      5. III. "The Wife's Story" and "Mazes"
    5. Mazes (1975)
    6. The Wife's Story (1982)
      7. IV. Five Vegetable Poems
    7. Torrey Pines Reserve (1981)
    8. Lewis and Clark and After (1987)
    9. West Texas (1987)
    10. Xmas Over (1984)
    11. The Crown of Laurel
      12. V. "The Direction of the Road" and "Vaster Than Empires"
    12. The Direction of the Road (1973)
    13. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971)
      14. VI. Seven Bird and Beast Poems
    14. What is Going on in the Oaks (1987)
    15. For Ted (1975)
    16. Found Poem (1987)
    17. Totem (1981)
    18. Winter Downs (1981)
    19. The Man Eater (1987)
    20. Sleeping Out (1987)
      21. VII. "The White Donkey" and "Horse Camp"
    21. The White Donkey (1980)
    22. Horse Camp (1986)
      23. VIII. Four Cat Poems
    23. Tabby Lorenzo (1987)
    24. Black Leonard in Negative Space (1987)
    25. A Conversation With a Silence (1987)
    26. For Leonard, Darko, and Burton Watson (1987)
      27. IX. "Schrödinger's Cat" and "The Author of the Acacia Seeds"
    27. Schrödinger's Cat (1974)
    28. The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics (1974)
      29. X."May's Lion"
    29. May's Lion (1983)
      30. XI. Rilke's "Eighth Duino Elegy" and "She Unnames Them"
    30. The Eighth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies, trans. Ursula K. Le Guin)
    31. She Unnames Them (1985)
    • Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences. 1987. A Plume book. New York: New American Library, 1988.
  60. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) [F]
    1. The First Contact with the Gorgonids (1992)
    2. Newton's Sleep (1991)
    3. The Ascent of the North Face (1983)
    4. The Rock That Changed Things (1992)
    5. The Kerastion (1990)
    6. The Shobies' Story (1990)
    7. Dancing to Ganam (1993)
    8. Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
    • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea. 1994. London: Vista, 1997.
  61. Findings [chapbook] (1992)
  62. Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) [U]
    1. Half Past Four (1987)
    2. The Professor's Houses (1982)
    3. Ruby on the 67 (1996)
    4. Limberlost (1989)
    5. The Creatures on My Mind (1990)
    6. Standing Ground (1992)
    7. The Spoons in the Basement (1982)
    8. Sunday in Summer in Seatown (1995)
    9. In the Drought (1993)
    10. Ether, Or (1995)
    11. Unlocking the Air (1990)
    12. A Child Bride (1988)
    13. Climbing to the Moon (1992)
    14. Daddy's Big Girl (1987)
    15. Findings (1992)
    16. Olders (1995)
    17. The Wise Woman (1995)
    18. The Poacher (1993)
    • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories. 1996. HarperPerennial. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
  63. The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (2002) [B]
    1. Coming of Age in Karhide (1995)
    2. The Matter of Seggri (1994)
    3. Unchosen Love (1994)
    4. Mountain Ways (1996)
    5. Solitude (1994)
    6. Old Music and the Slave Women (1996)
    7. The Birthday of the World (2000)
    8. Paradises Lost (2002)
    • The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. 2002. London: Gollancz, 2003.
  64. Changing Planes (2002) [C]
    1. Sita Dulip's Method (2002)
    2. Porridge on Islac (2002)
    3. The Silence of the Asonu (1998)
    4. Feeling at Home with the Hennebet (2002)
    5. The Ire of the Veksi (2002)
    6. Seasons of the Ansarac (2002)
    7. Social Dreaming of the Frin (2002)
    8. The Royals of Hegn (2000)
    9. Woeful Tales from Mahigul (2002)
      1. Dawodow the Innumerable
      2. The Cleansing of Obtry
      3. The Black Dog
      4. The War for the Alon
    10. Great Joy (2002)
    11. Wake Island (2002)
    12. The Nna Mmoy Language (2002)
    13. The Building (2002)
    14. The Fliers of Gy (2000)
    15. The Island of the Immortals (1998)
    16. Confusions of Uñi (2002)
    • Changing Planes: Stories. Illustrated by Eric Beddows. Orlando, Fl: Harcourt, Inc., 2003.
  65. The Wild Girls (2011)
    1. The Wild Girls (2002)
    2. Staying Awake While We Read
    3. Poems
    4. The Conversation of the Modest
    5. A Lovely Art: Interview with Terry Bisson
    6. Bibliography
  66. The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Stories of Ursula Le Guin (2012) [T]
      Vol. 1: What on Earth
    1. Brothers and Sisters (1976)
    2. A Week in the Country (1976)
    3. Unlocking the Air (1990)
    4. Imaginary Countries (1973)
    5. The Diary of the Rose (1976)
    6. The Direction of the Road (1973)
    7. The White Donkey (1980)
    8. Gwilan’s Harp (1977)
    9. May’s Lion (1983)
    10. Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight (1987)
    11. Horse Camp (1986)
    12. The Water is Wide (1976)
    13. The Lost Children (1996)
    14. Texts (1990)
    15. Sleepwalkers (1991)
    16. Hand, Cup, Shell (1989)
    17. Ether, Or (1995)
    18. Half Past Four (1987)
      19. Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands
    19. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973)
    20. Semley’s Necklace (1964)
    21. Nine Lives (1969)
    22. Mazes (1975)
    23. The First Contact with the Gorgonids (1991)
    24. The Shobies’ Story (1990)
    25. Betrayals (1994)
    26. The Matter of Seggri (1994)
    27. Solitude (1994)
    28. The Wild Girls (2002)
    29. The Fliers of Gy (2000)
    30. The Silence of the Asonu (1998)
    31. The Ascent of the North Face (1983)
    32. The Author of the Acacia Seeds (1974)
    33. The Wife’s Story (1982)
    34. The Rule of Names (1964)
    35. Small Change (1981)
    36. The Poacher (1993)
    37. Sur (1982)
    38. She Unnames Them (1985)
    39. Jar of Water (2014)
    • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume 1: Where on Earth. 2012. Gollancz. London: Orion Publishing Group, 2014.
    • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands. 2012. Gollancz. London: Orion Publishing Group, 2015.
  67. The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas (2016) [N]
    1. Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971)
    2. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987)
    3. Hernes (1991)
    4. The Matter of Seggri (1994)
    5. Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
    6. Forgiveness Day (1994)
    7. A Man of the People (1995)
    8. A Woman's Liberation (1995)
    9. Old Music and the Slave Women (1996)
    10. The Finder (2001)
    11. On the High Marsh (2001)
    12. Dragonfly (1998)
    13. Paradises Lost (2002)
    • The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas. Saga Press. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2016.


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    Stories:

    Key:
    A = Always Coming Home: Expanded Edition (2019)
    B = The Birthday of the World (2002)
    C = Changing Planes (2002)
    E = The Books of Earthsea (2018)
    F = A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994)
    G = Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987)
    H = Hainish Novels & Stories (2017)
    N = The Found and the Lost: Collected Novellas (2016)
    K = Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)
    O = The Complete Orsinia (2016)
    R = The Compass Rose (1982)
    T = The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories (2012)
    U = Unlocking the Air (1996)
    W = The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975)


    1. An die Musik (1961) [O]
    2. April in Paris (September 1962) [W]
    3. The Masters (February 1963) [W]
    4. Darkness Box (November 1963) [W]
    5. The Word of Unbinding (January 1964) [W] [E]
    6. The Rule of Names (April 1964) [W] [T] [E]
    7. Selection (August 1964)
    8. Semley's Necklace [aka 'The Dowry of Angyar'] (September 1964) [W] [T] [H]
    9. Nine Lives (November 1969) [W] [T]
    10. Winter's King (1969) [W] [H]
    11. A Trip to the Head (1970) [W]
    12. Things (1970) [W]
    13. The Good Trip (August 1970) [W]
    14. Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) [W] [G] [N] [H]
    15. The Field of Vision (October 1973) [W]
    16. Imaginary Countries (Winter 1973) [T] [O]
    17. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) [W] [T]
    18. The Direction of the Road (1973) [W] [G] [T]
    19. The Day Before the Revolution (August 1974) [W] [H]
    20. The Stars Below (1974) [W]
    21. The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974) [R] [G] [T]
    22. Schrödinger's Cat (1974) [R] [G]
    23. Intracom (1974) [R]
    24. The Eye Altering (1974) [R]
    25. Mazes (1975) [R] [G] [T]
    26. The New Atlantis (1975) [R]
    27. A Week in the Country (Spring 1976) [T] [O]
    28. Brothers and Sisters (Summer 1976) [T] [O]
    29. The Fountains (1976) [O]
    30. The Barrow (1976) [O]
    31. Ile Forest (1976) [O]
    32. Conversations At Night (1976) [O]
    33. The Road East (1976) [O]
    34. The House (1976) [O]
    35. The Lady of Moge (1976) [O]
    36. The Diary of the Rose (1976) [R] [T]
    37. The Water is Wide (1976) [R] [T]
    38. Gwilan's Harp (1977) [R] [T]
    39. Ghost Story (1977)
    40. Courtroom Scene (1977)
    41. SQ (1978) [R]
    42. The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb (Spring 1978) [R]
    43. The Pathways of Desire (1979) [R]
    44. Malheur County (Winter 1979) [R]
    45. Some Approaches to the Problem of Shortage of Time [aka 'Where Does Time Go?'] (October 1979) [R]
    46. Two Delays on the Northern Line (November 1979) [R] [O]
    47. The White Donkey (1980) [R] [G] [T]
    48. Small Change (1981) [R] [T]
    49. Sur (February 1982) [R] [T]
    50. The Spoons in the Basement (August 1982) [U]
    51. The Professor's Houses (November 1982) [U]
    52. The Phoenix (1982) [R]
    53. The Wife's Story (1982) [R] [G] [T]
    54. May's Lion (1983) [G] [T] [A]
    55. The Ascent of the North Face (1983) [F] [T]
    56. The Trouble with the Cotton People (Winter 1984) [A]
    57. The Visionary (Winter 1984) [A]
    58. She Unnames Them (January 1985) [G] [T]
    59. Time in the Valley (Winter 1985) [A]
    60. Dangerous People (1985) [A]
    61. Horse Camp (August 1986) [G] [T]
    62. Daddy's Big Girl (January 1987) [U]
    63. Half Past Four (September 1987) [U] [T]
    64. The Ship Ahoy (November 1987) [K]
    65. Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (1987) [G] [T] [N]
    66. Legends for a New Land (1988)
    67. A Child Bride [aka 'Kore 87'] (June 1988) [U]
    68. Hand, Cup, Shell (Autumn 1989) [K] [T]
    69. In and Out (January 1989) [K]
    70. Limberlost (1989) [U]
    71. Texts (May 1990) [K] [T]
    72. Crosswords (July 1990) [K]
    73. Bill Weisler (Autumn 1990) [K]
    74. The Creatures on My Mind (1990) [U]
    75. The Kerastion (1990) [F]
    76. The Shobies' Story (1990) [F] [T] [H]
    77. Unlocking the Air (1990) [U] [T] [O]
    78. Foam Women, Rain Women (1991) [K]
    79. Geezers (Winter 1991) [K]
    80. True Love (Spring 1991) [K]
    81. Sleepwalkers (1991) [K] [T]
    82. Quoits (Summer 1991) [K]
    83. Hernes (1991) [K] [N]
    84. Newton's Sleep (1991) [F]
    85. Sleepwalkers (1991)
    86. First Contact with the Gorgonids (January 1992) [F] [T]
    87. The Rock That Changed Things (September 1992) [F]
    88. Climbing to the Moon (1992) [U]
    89. Findings (1992) [U]
    90. Standing Ground (1992) [U]
    91. Dancing to Ganam (September 1993) [F] [H]
    92. The Poacher (1993) [U] [T]
    93. In the Drought (1993) [U]
    94. The Matter of Seggri (Spring 1994) [B] [T] [N] [H]
    95. Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inner Sea (August 1994) [F] [N] [H]
    96. Unchosen Love (Fall 1994) [B] [H]
    97. Solitude (December 1994) [B] [T] [H]
    98. Betrayals (1994) [T] [H]
    99. Forgiveness Day (1994) [N] [H]
    100. Ether, Or (November 1995) [U] [T]
    101. Olders (December 1995) [U]
    102. A Man of the People (1995) [N] [H]
    103. A Woman's Liberation (1995) [N] [H]
    104. Coming of Age in Karhide (1995) [B] [H]
    105. Sunday in Summer in Seatown (1995) [U]
    106. The Wise Woman (1995) [U]
    107. The Lost Children (January 1996) [T]
    108. Mountain Ways (August 1996) [B] [H]
    109. Old Music and the Slave Women (August 1996) [B] [N] [H]
    110. Ruby on the 67 (1996) [U]
    111. The Island of the Immortals (Fall 1998) [C]
    112. Dragonfly (1998) [N] [E]
    113. The Silence of the Asonu (1998) [C] [T]
    114. Darkrose and Diamond (October–November 1999) [E]
    115. The Royals of Hegn (February 2000) [C]
    116. The Birthday of the World (January 2000) [B]
    117. The Flyers of Gy (November 2000) [C] [T]
    118. The Bones of the Earth (2001) [E]
    119. The Building (2001)
    120. The Finder (2001) [N] [E]
    121. On the High Marsh (2001) [N] [E]
    122. The Wild Girls (March 2002) [T]
    123. Sita Dulip's Method (2002) [C]
    124. Porridge on Islac (2002) [C]
    125. Feeling at Home with the Hennebet (2002) [C]
    126. The Ire of the Veksi (2002) [C]
    127. Seasons of the Ansarac (2002) [C]
    128. Social Dreaming of the Frin (November 2002) [C]
    129. Woeful Tales from Mahigul (2002) [C]
      1. Dawodow the Innumerable
      2. The Cleansing of Obtry
      3. The Black Dog
      4. The War for the Alon
    130. Great Joy (2002) [C]
    131. Wake Island (2002) [C]
    132. The Nna Mmoy Language (2002) [C]
    133. The Building (2002) [C]
    134. Confusions of Uñi (2002) [C]
    135. Paradises Lost (2002) [B] [N]
    136. The Seasons of the Ansarac (February 2003)
    137. LADeDeDa (March 2009)
    138. Elementals (2013)
    139. The Daughter of Odren (September 2014) [E]
    140. Jar of Water [aka 'The Jar of Water'] (Winter 2014) [T]
    141. Firelight (Summer 2018) [E]
    142. Pity and Shame (Summer 2018)


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    Ursula K. Le Guin: Dreams Must Explain Themselves (2018)



    Non-fiction:

  68. From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
  69. Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
    1. The Rule of Names (1964)
  70. The Language of the Night. Ed. Susan Wood (1979)
    • The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood. 1979. Rev ed. London: The Women’s Press, 1989.
  71. The Art of Bunditsu [chapbook] (1982)
  72. Dancing at the Edge of the World. Ed. Susan Wood (1989)
    • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places. London: Victor Gollancz, 1989.
  73. Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction [chapbook] (1991)
  74. Talking About Writing [chapbook] (1992)
  75. Earthsea Revisioned [chapbook] (1993)
  76. Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (1998)
    • Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew. Portland, Oregon: The Eighth Mountain Press, 1998.
  77. The Wave in the Mind (2004)
    • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2004.
  78. Cheek by Jowl (2009)
    • Cheek by Jowl: Talks & Essays on How & Why Fantasy Matters. Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2009.
  79. Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story (2015)
  80. Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000–2016 (2016)
    • Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer’s Week. Northampton, Mass: Small Beer Press, 2016.
  81. No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (2017)
  82. Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972–2004 (2018)
    • Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin. Gollancz. London: Orion Publishing Group Ltd., 2018.
  83. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction [chapbook] (2019)

    84. Screenplay:

  84. King Dog: A Screenplay (1985)

    85. Children's Books:

  85. Very Far Away from Anywhere Else [aka A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else] (1976)
    • A Very Long Way from Anywhere Else. [aka ‘Very Far Away from Anywhere Else’]. 1976. Peacock Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
  86. Leese Webster. Illustrated by James Brunsman (1979)
  87. The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune. Illustrated by Alicia Austin (1982)
  88. Solomon Leviathan's Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World. Illustrated by Alicia Austin (1983)
  89. A Visit from Dr. Katz. Illustrated by Ann Barrow (1988)
  90. Fire and Stone. Illustrated by Laura Marshall (1988)
  91. Catwings. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler (1988)
  92. Catwings Return. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler (1989)
  93. Fish Soup. Illustrated by Patrick Wynne (1992)
  94. A Ride on the Red Mare's Back. Illustrated by Julie Downing (1992)
  95. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler (1994)
  96. Jane On Her Own (1999)
  97. Tom Mouse. Illustrated by Julie Downing (2002)
  98. Cat Dreams. Illustrated by S. D. Schindler (2009)

    99. Edited:

  99. Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976)
  100. [with Virginia Kidd] Edges (1980)
  101. [with Virginia Kidd] Interfaces (1980)
  102. [with Brian Attebery] The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
  103. Selected Stories of H. G. Wells (2004)

    104. Interviews:

  104. [with David Naimon] Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (2018)
  105. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Last Interview. Ed. David Streitfeld (2018)


Ursula K. Le Guin: The Catwings Complete Collection (1988-99)



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Acquisitions (103): Stephen King's The Dark Tower


Peter David & Robin Furth: Stephen King's The Dark Tower (2007-2017)

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Peter David (1956- )

Robin Furth (1965- )


Stephen King's The Dark Tower (2007-2017)
[Mainly Books, Thames - 1/3/2024]:

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 3 - Treachery. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. 2008-2009. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2009.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 4 - Fall of Gilead. Art by Richard Isanove & Dean White. 2009. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2010.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 5 - Battle of Jericho Hill. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. 2009-2010. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2010.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 1 - The Journey Begins. Art by Sean Phillips & Richard Isanove. 2010. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2011.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 2 - The Little Sisters of Eluria. Art by Luke Ross & Richard Isanove. 2010-2011. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2011.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 3 - The Battle of Tull. Art by Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, & Richard Isanove. 2011. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2012.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 4 - The Way Station. Art by Laurence Campbell & Richard Isanove. 2011-2012. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2012.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 5 - The Man in Black. Art by Alex Maleev & Richard Isanove. 2012. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2013.

Peter David & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 6 - Last Shots: Sheemie's Tale/ Evil Ground / So Fell Lord Perth. Art by Dean White & Richard Isanove. 2013. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2013.



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Wikipedia: The Dark Tower (comics) (2007-2023)

Multiple issues


I had to laugh when I saw the above warning plastered at the top of the Wikipedia page devoted to the series of comics collectively entitled Stephen King's The Dark Tower. As if there could ever be too much bibliographical blether on the subject for us die-hard fans!

Some might say that I myself have written far too many blogposts on Stephen King - and adjacent themes - already. Though whether or not they contain "an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience" is surely a matter of opinion. In any case, isn't the whole point to provide accurate, easily accessible data? And isn't that bound, by definition, to appeal only to a "particular audience"?

Let's see, there are already two posts directly concerning Big Steve here in the "Acquisitions" section of my bibliography website, A Gentle Madness:
And then there are a few more on my homepage The Imaginary Museum:
Is that excessive? I mean, that's a scant six over a period of more than a decade. It certainly doesn't seem too much to me.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower, 1 - The Gunslinger Born (2007)


I was certainly aware of the existence of a series of comics retelling sections of the plot of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series. In fact, I think I may have read one or two of them over the years. But then I walked into Mainly Books in Thames and saw a whole slew of them sitting over by the wall!


Stephen King's The Dark Tower, 2 - The Long Way Home (2008)


They appeared to be de-accessioned library copies: hardbacks for the most part, and - in my humble opinion at least - very handsome indeed. There were nine of them: so not a complete set (the first two volumes were missing), but pretty close to one.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower, 3 - Treachery (2008-9)


I promptly bought them all, of course - all that were there, anyway.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 4 - The Way Station (2011-12)


The man who sold them to me said an interesting thing: "Those Dark Tower books are the only ones by Stephen King I've ever read." He looked as if he expected to be congratulated on the fact: as if this were proof of some exceptional critical acumen on his part.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 6 - Last Shots (2013)


The reason I mention it is because it's not the first time I've heard that line. My brother-in-law, too, was quite impressed when he learned that I, too, had made the long journey through all seven books of the Dark Tower series. Not only were they the only ones by Stephen King he'd read, but the only books he'd completed in many a long year, as he proudly informed me.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 1 - The Prisoner (2014-15)


While I did greatly enjoy it, I'm not sure that I would concur that The Dark Tower is somehow on a different level from the Master's other works. The Stand seems to me more successful as a work of pure epic fantasy, and there are other works such as Desperation or Insomnia which run it a close second.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 2 - House of Cards (2015)


In any case, I told the bookseller that my own Stephen King addiction was far too pronounced to be satisfied by even something as voluminous as The Dark Tower. I hadn't previously thought to extend it to such spin-off works as this line of comics, however.



It all began, it would appear, with a young university teaching assistant named Robin Furth, who was asked to help King by compiling a concordance of the names, places, dates and other details already established in the first four books. This was after the life-threatening car crash which left him at death's door, and he felt that the supreme effort of writing the last three volumes in the series could not be accomplished without such an extensive bibliographical aid. You can read further details here.


Robin Furth: Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance (2003 & 2005)


The original plan was simply to provide an in-house guide, suitable for one reader only: the author, but as the project evolved, the idea of adapting it for the burgeoning Dark Tower fan-base began to emerge. And so it came to pass. Furth's Complete Concordance appeared in two large volumes, in 2003 and 2005, with a preface by King himself, shortly after the publication of the last three Dark Tower novels.



But life with an author as prolific as King is seldom as simple as that. In 2012 he published another Dark Tower novel, The Wind through the Keyhole, which fits into the sequence somewhere between volumes 4 and 5. The indefatigable Robin Furth was therefore inspired to produce a 'revised, updated' version of her 'Complete' Concordance, with full details of the new novel. This time it came as a single huge paperback, which no doubt assisted with sales.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 3 - The Lady of Shadows (2015-16)


By then Furth was already engaged in plotting out a series of Marvel comics roughly based on King's roman-fleuve. As you can see from the list at the end of this post, the first issue of Stephen King's The Dark Tower was published on February 7, 2007; the latest (to date), issue #85, on February 8, 2017.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 4 - Bitter Medicine (2016)


The separate issues were initially collected in 15 standalone volumes, but they've now been republished as three large omnibuses, each devoted to one of the principal storylines: respectively, Beginnings, The Gunslinger, and The Drawing of the Three.


Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, 5 - The Sailor (2016)


Interestingly enough, the third omnibus does not include the final five issues which go to make up volume 15, The Sailor. It's hard to know why, but I would conjecture that it has something to do with the appearance of the Dark Tower film in 2017, just as the last of these comics were appearing. Perhaps the divergency of these various warring plotlines was too glaring to be sustained at that stage.


Nikolaj Arcel, dir.: The Dark Tower (2017)


It must also have become obvious by then that completing the entire Dark Tower storyline in graphic novel form would have required at least another 5 or 6 omnibuses, and the immense complexity of some of the later books in the series might well have sprawled into even more volumes than that.



Marvel comics was clearly not willing to take that risk, especially as the 2017 film was largely panned by critics and audiences alike, and therefore failed to spawn any of its planned sequels and spin-offs.

The comics, then, remain an magnificent fragment: not authorial exactly, though they were (allegedly) plotted by Robin Furth under the direct supervision of King himself, but certainly an intriguing sidelight on the universe of the Dark Tower.


Marvel Spotlight #14: Stephen King's Dark Tower (2007)



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Stephen King: The Dark Tower (1982-2004)

The Dark Tower

Books I own are marked in bold:

    The Dark Tower books:


      Stephen King: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1988)


    1. The Gunslinger. The Dark Tower, 1 (1982)
      • The Gunslinger. The Dark Tower, 1. 1982. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. London: Sphere Books, 1988.
      • The Gunslinger. The Dark Tower, 1. 1982. Rev. ed. New English Library. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.


    2. The Drawing of the Three. The Dark Tower, 2 (1987)
      • The Drawing of the Three. The Dark Tower, 2. 1987. Illustrated by Phil Hale. London: Sphere Books, 1989.

      3. Stephen King: The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands (1991)


    3. The Waste Lands. The Dark Tower, 3 (1991)
      • The Waste Lands. The Dark Tower, 3. Illustrated by Ned Dameron. London: Sphere Books, 1991.

      4. Stephen King: The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)


    4. Wizard and Glass. The Dark Tower, 4 (1997)
      • Wizard and Glass. The Dark Tower, 4. Illustrated by Dave McKean. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.


    5. "The Little Sisters of Eluria." The Dark Tower, 0.5 (1998)
      • Legends. Ed. Robert Silverberg. Voyager. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998.
      • Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.


    6. Wolves of the Calla. The Dark Tower, 5 (2003)
      • Wolves of the Calla. The Dark Tower, 5. Illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.

      7. Stephen King: The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2004)


    7. Song of Susannah. The Dark Tower, 6 (2004)
      • Song of Susannah. The Dark Tower, 6. Illustrated by Darrel Anderson. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.

      8. Stephen King: The Dark Tower (2004)


    8. The Dark Tower. The Dark Tower, 7 (2004)
      • The Dark Tower. The Dark Tower, 7. Illustrated by Michael Whelan. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004.


    9. The Wind through the Keyhole. The Dark Tower, 4.5 (2012)
      • The Wind through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel. Illustrated by Jae Lee. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.


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    The Dark Tower comics:


      Stephen King's Dark Tower - Beginnings


    1. The Gunslinger Born. 7 issues (February 7 - August 1, 2007). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., November 7, 2007.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    2. The Long Road Home. 5 issues (March 5 - July 2, 2008). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., October 7, 2008.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    3. Treachery. 6 issues (September 10, 2008 - February 25, 2009). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., April 21, 2009.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 3 - Treachery. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. 2008-2009. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2009.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    4. The Sorcerer. 1 issue (April 15, 2009). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Robin Furth. Art by Richard Isanove.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 4 - Fall of Gilead. Art by Richard Isanove & Dean White. 2009. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2010.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    5. Fall of Gilead. 6 issues (May 13 - November 25, 2009). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Richard Isanove & Dean White. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., February 23, 2010.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 4 - Fall of Gilead. Art by Richard Isanove & Dean White. 2009. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2010.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    6. Battle of Jericho Hill. 5 issues (December 3, 2009 - April 21, 2010). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., August 18, 2010.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: 5 - Battle of Jericho Hill. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove. 2009-2010. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2010.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


      7. Stephen King's Dark Tower - The Gunslinger

      Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 1: The Journey Begins (2007)


    7. The Journey Begins. 5 issues (May 19 - September 22, 2010). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Sean Phillips & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., January 25, 2011.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 1 - The Journey Begins. Art by Sean Phillips & Richard Isanove. 2010. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2011.

      8. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 2: The Little Sisters of Eluria (2010-11)


    8. The Little Sisters of Eluria. 5 issues (December 8, 2010 - April 13, 2011). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Luke Ross & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., June 22, 2011.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 2 - The Little Sisters of Eluria. Art by Luke Ross & Richard Isanove. 2010-2011. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2011.

      9. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 3: The Battle of Tull (2011)


    9. The Battle of Tull. 5 issues (June 1 - October 5, 2011). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., January 25, 2012.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 3 - The Battle of Tull. Art by Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, & Richard Isanove. 2011. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2012.

      10. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 4: The Way Station (2011-12)


    10. The Way Station. 5 issues (December 14, 2011 - April 25, 2012). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Laurence Campbell & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., June 27, 2012.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 4 - The Way Station. Art by Laurence Campbell & Richard Isanove. 2011-2012. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2012.


    11. The Man in Black. 5 issues (June 20 - October 17, 2012). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Alex Maleev & Richard Isanove. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., January 15, 2013.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 5 - The Man in Black. Art by Alex Maleev & Richard Isanove. 2012. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2013.


    12. Last Shots. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., October 8, 2013.
      1. Sheemie's Tale. 2 issues (January 9 - February 13, 2013). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Robin Furth. Art by Richard Isanove.
      2. Evil Ground. 2 issues (April 3 - June 5, 2013). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Richard Isanove, Dean White.
      3. So Fell Lord Perth. 1 issue (August 7, 2013). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Richard Isanove.
      • David, Peter, & Robin Furth. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger, 6 - Last Shots: Sheemie's Tale/ Evil Ground / So Fell Lord Perth. Art by Dean White & Richard Isanove. 2013. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., 2013.


      13. Stephen King's Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three


    13. The Prisoner. 5 issues (September 3 - November 30, 2014). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., March 10, 2015.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    14. House of Cards. 5 issues (March 25 - July 15, 2015). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., September 22, 2015.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    15. Lady of Shadows. 5 issues (September 2, 2015 - January 20, 2016). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., March 29, 2016.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    16. Bitter Medicine. 5 issues (April 20 - August 31, 2016). Plot by Robin Furth Peter David. Art by Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., October 18, 2016.
      • Included in: Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. New York: Gallery 13, 2023.


    17. The Sailor. 5 issues (October 12, 2016 - February 8, 2017). Plot by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Juanan Ramirez, Cory Hamscher, Jesus Aburtov, Federico Blee. New York: Marvel Publishing, Inc., May 9, 2017.


    Stephen King's Dark Tower - Omnibuses



  1. Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. 5 vols. 2007-2010. Plotting by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. Gallery 13. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
    1. The Gunslinger Born. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove (2007)
    2. The Long Road Home. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove (2008)
    3. Treachery. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove (2008-2009)
    4. Fall of Gilead. Art by Richard Isanove & Dean White (2009-2010)
    5. Battle of Jericho Hill. Art by Jae Lee & Richard Isanove (2009-2010)
    • Stephen King's The Dark Tower - Beginnings: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. 5 vols. 2007-2010. Plotting by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Jae Lee, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. Gallery 13. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.



  2. Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Gunslinger: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. 6 vols. 2010-2013. Plotting by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Sean Phillips, Luke Ross, Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, Laurence Campbell, Alex Maleev, Dean White, & Richard Isanove. Gallery 13. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
    1. The Journey Begins. Art by Sean Phillips & Richard Isanove (2010-2011)
    2. The Little Sisters of Eluria. Art by Luke Ross & Richard Isanove (2010-2011)
    3. The Battle of Tull. Art by Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano, & Richard Isanove (2011-2012)
    4. The Way Station. Art by Laurence Campbell & Richard Isanove (2011-2012)
    5. The Man in Black. Art by Alex Maleev & Richard Isanove (2012-2013)
    6. Last Shots: Sheemie's Tale/ Evil Ground / So Fell Lord Perth. Art by Dean White & Richard Isanove (2013)



  3. Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. 4 vols. 2014-2016. Plotting by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. Gallery 13. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
    1. The Prisoner. Art by Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi (2014-2015)
    2. House of Cards. Art by Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi (2015)
    3. Lady of Shadows. Art by Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge (2015-2016)
    4. Bitter Medicine. Art by Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge (2016)
    • Stephen King's The Dark Tower - The Drawing of the Three: The Complete Graphic Novel Saga. 4 vols. 2014-2016. Plotting by Robin Furth. Script by Peter David. Art by Piotr Kowalski, Nick Filardi, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge. Gallery 13. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.


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    Secondary:


    Robin Furth: Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance (2003 & 2005)


  4. Furth, Robin. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance. 2 vols. (2003 & 2005)
    • Furth, Robin. Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance: Revised and Updated. 2003. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012.



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Nikolaj Arcel, dir.: The Dark Tower (2017)



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