The Birthday of the World
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The Birthday of the World is a collection of short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, and first published in 2003 by Gollancz (Britain) an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, with ISBN 0575075392. All of the stories except "Paradises Lost" were previously published individually elsewhere.
The collection was also published in New York by Perennial in 2003 with ISBN 0060509066.
Contents
- Foreword
- "Coming of Age in Karhide" - 1995 in New Legends ed. G. Bear. Takes place on Gethen the planet of The Left Hand of Darkness which is part of the Ekumen.
- "The Matter of Seggri" - Spring 1994 in Crank!. Takes place on Seggri of the Ekumen.
- "Unchosen Love" - Fall 1994 in Amazing Stories. Takes place on O of the Ekumen which is the same planet as the title story of "A Fisherman of the Inland Sea".
- "Mountain Ways" - August 1996 in Asimov's Science Fiction. Also on O.
- "Solitude" - December 1994 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Takes place on Eleven-Soro on the fringes of the Ekumen.
- "Old Music and the Slave Women" - 1999 in Far Horizons ed. R. Silverberg. Another story in the same dual-planet system of Werel and Yeowe as "Four Ways to Forgiveness" of the Ekumen.
- "The Birthday of the World" - June 2000 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. May or may not be of the Ekumen
- "Paradises Lost" - First publication. Not of the Ekumen.