“A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be” copyright © 1982 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Yale Review, Winter 1983.
“Facing It” copyright © 1982 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry” copyright © 1983 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“A Left-Handed Commencement Address” copyright © 1983 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Along the Platte” copyright © 1983 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Oregonian, August 28, 1983.
“Whose Lathe?” copyright © 1984 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Oregonian, May 16, 1984.
“The Woman Without Answers” copyright © 1984 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“The Second Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb” copyright © 1984 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Room 9, Car 1430” copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Oregonian, February 17, 1985.
“Theodora” copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared as the introduction to Theodora Kroeber, The Inland Whale (Covelo, Calif.: Yolla Bolly Press, 1985).
“Science Fiction and the Future” copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“The Only Good Author?” copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Bryn Mawr Commencement Address” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Woman/Wilderness” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Denise M. Du Pont, ed., Women of Vision (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988).
“Heroes” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Prospects for Women in Writing” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Text, Silence, Performance” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“ ‘Who Is Responsible?’ ” copyright © 1987 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Spring 1987.
“Conflict” copyright © 1987 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“ ‘Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?’ ” copyright © 1987 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“Over the Hills and a Great Way Off” copyright © 1988 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, March 13, 1988.
“The Fisherwoman’s Daughter” copyright © 1988 by Ursula K. Le Guin.
“The Dark Tower” copyright © 1977 by The New Republic. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New Republic, April 16, 1977.
“Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid” copyright © 1978 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Future, August 1978.
“Shikasta” copyright © 1979 by The New Republic. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New Republic, October 13, 1979.
“The Beginning Place” and “The Book of the Dun Cow” copyright © 1980 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in Venom, vol. 1, 1980.
“Freddy’s Book and Vlemk the Box-Painter” copyright © 1980 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, March 23, 1980.
“The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five” copyright © 1980 by The New Republic. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New Republic, March 29, 1980.
“Kalila and Dimna” copyright © 1980 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, August 10, 1980.
“Unfinished Business” copyright © 1980 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, August 24, 1980.
“Italian Folktales” copyright © 1980 by The New Republic. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New Republic, September 27, 1980.
“Peake’s Progress” copyright © 1981 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, September 27, 1981.
“The Sentimental Agents” copyright © 1983 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Weekly (Seattle), August 3, 1983.
“Difficult Loves” copyright © 1984 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, November 18, 1984.
“ ‘Forsaking Kingdoms’: Five Poets” copyright © 1985 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, February 17, 1985.
“The Mythology of North America” copyright © 1985 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New York Times Book Review under the title “Loon Woman in the Long Ago,” September 1, 1985.
“Silent Partners” copyright © 1986 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission. First appeared in The New York Times Book Review under the title “Apologies to the Primates,” May 25, 1986.
“Outside the Gates” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Five Owls, November–December 1986.
“Golden Days” copyright © 1986 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in The Washington Post Book World, November 9, 1986.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following authors and publishers for permission to use quotations from copyrighted works: From the Gododdin, translated by Joseph P. Clancy, in his The Earliest Welsh Poetry. Copyright © 1970 by Joseph P. Clancy. Reprinted by permission of the translator. From Margaret Drabble, The Millstone. Copyright © 1965 by Margaret Drabble. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc. From Terence Des Pres, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. Copyright © 1976 by Terence Des Pres. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. From Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia. Copyright © 1970 by Robert C. Elliott. Reprinted by permission of University of Chicago Press. “She Who,” in The Work of a Common Woman, by Judy Grahn. Copyright © 1978 by Judy Grahn. Reprinted by permission of the author. “The Blanket Around Her,” in What Moon Drove Me to This? by Joy Harjo. Copyright © 1980 by Joy Harjo. Reprinted by permission of the author and I. Reed Books. From “The Women Speaking,” in Daughters, I Love You, by Linda Hogan. Copyright © 1981 by Linda Hogan. Reprinted by permission of the author. From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera. Copyright © 1978 by Milan Kundera. English translation copyright © 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. “Stepping Westward,” in Poems 1960–1967, by Denise Levertov. Copyright © 1967 by Denise Levertov Goodman. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. From “A Wild Surmise,” in Writing Like a Woman, by Alicia Ostriker. Copyright © 1983 by Alicia Ostriker. Reprinted by permission of University of Michigan Press. From “The Parts of a Poet,” in Lost Copper, by Wendy Rose. Copyright © 1980 by Wendy Rose. Reprinted by permission of the author and Malki Museum Press. From “Professions for Women,” in The Pargiters, by Virginia Woolf, edited by Mitchell Leaska. Copyright © 1977 by Quentin Bell and Angelica Garnett. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. From Islandia, by Austin Tappan Wright. Copyright © 1942 by Austin Tappan Wright. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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