I BEGGED PEOPLE-EDITORS, FRIENDS, THIRD cousins once removed-to help me select stories for this collection, but nobody would. WHERE ON EARTH INTRODUCTION Choosing and Dividing
It made her whole justification for separation of the works nonsensical.I have to say this was my least favorite of the many works I have read by Ms. Soon, however, volume two veered into work very similar to that contained in volume one. Volume two began promisingly, with a turn toward more of the author’s trademark anthropological science fiction, leading me to believe that “Outer Space, Inner Lands” somehow referred to science fiction. Most troubling, Buffalo Gals was not nearly the worst selection. In the forward, the author bemoaned the task of choosing between her many potential inclusions, and then includes two “novella” which had already been published in a recently released book. My least favorite “novella”, Buffalo Gals, also appears in this collection of short stories, as did The Matter of Seggri, which was in volume two. In fact, I discovered that there was actually overlap between the two collections. I found the stories in volume one to be very disappointing. The short stories are grouped into two volumes, according to the author, based on the premise of “Where on Earth” and “Outer Space, Inner Lands”, whatever that means. This collection of short stories, on the other hand, was largely a dud. You could label her work anthropological or sociological science fiction, with the fact that aliens, or space travel, or wizards are involved, becoming almost secondary.I had previously read the author’s collection of novellas, The Found and the Lost, and was generally pleased with the content. She does not write space opera, but instead focuses on character development and human (or alien) interaction. But Le Guin is not your prototypical science fiction (or it turns out, fantasy) author. It was not until later that I discovered her science fiction work and grew to enjoy it immensely. Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonightįor many years, I avoided Ursula Le Guin, on the mistaken assumption that she was essentially a fantasy author, by virtue of her Wizard of Earthsea novels. She has had her work collected over the years, but this is the first short story volume combining a full range of her work. She has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin-selected with an introduction by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. A collection of short stories by the legendary and iconic Ursula K.
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