The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) Includes 'The Finder', 'Darkrose and Diamond', 'The Bones of the Earth', 'On the High Marsh', and 'Dragonfly'. A shortened version of The Tombs of Atuan was published in the Winter 1970 issue of Worlds of Fantasy. This bibliography includes all of Le Guin's published novels, short fiction, translations, and edited volumes, and all collections that include material not previously published in book form, as well as any works mentioned in commentary about Le Guin's writings. Her final publications included the non-fiction collections Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Ursula K Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, and the poetry volume So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014–2018, all of which were released after her death. Her first professional publication was the short story 'April in Paris' in 1962, while her first published novel was Rocannon's World, released by Ace Books in 1966.

Le Guin's first published work was the poem 'Folksong from the Montayna Province' in 1959, while her first short story was 'An die Musik', in 1961 both were set in her fictional country of Orsinia. Feminist critiques of her writing were particularly influential upon Le Guin's later work. Her awards include the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal, and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards. As of 1999, ten volumes of literary criticism and forty dissertations had been written about her work: she was referred to by scholar Donna White as a 'major figure in American letters'. Her work has received intense critical attention. Several scholars have called the Earthsea books Le Guin's best work.

Literary critic Harold Bloom referred to the books as Le Guin's masterpieces.

The Earthsea books, of which A Wizard of Earthsea was the first, have been described as Le Guin's best work by several commentators, while scholar Charlotte Spivack described The Left Hand of Darkness as having established Le Guin's reputation as a writer of science fiction. Le Guin came to critical attention with the publication of A Wizard of Earthsea in 1968, and The Left Hand of Darkness in 1969. Though frequently referred to as an author of science fiction, critics have described her work as being difficult to classify. These include works set in the fictional world of Earthsea, stories in the Hainish Cycle, and standalone novels and short stories. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction.

The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin