Unreal and the Real - Selected Stories Vol. 2
For fifty years, National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ursula K. Le Guin's stories have shaped the way her readers see the world. Her work gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power. Le Guin's writing is witty, wise, both sly and forthright; she is a master craftswomen. This two-volume selection of almost forty stories taken from her eleven collections was made by Le Guin herself, as was the organizing principle of splitting the stories into the nominally realistic and fantastic. Outer Space, Inner Lands has twenty stories, including such modern classics as "The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas" and "Nine Lives" (both of which have been reprinted more than twenty times); Tiptree Award winner "The Matter of Seggri"; Nebula Award winner "Solitude"; and the secret history "Sur," which was included in The Best American Short Stories.