The following stories are a collection of some of Ursula Le Guin’s most famous short stories and novelettes. They are set in various complex worlds in unknown galaxies; together, these stories explore concepts of sociology, psychology, religion, and politics. The following stories can be found in Ursula Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Volume 2):
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
- “Nine Lives”
- “The Matter of Seggri”
- “The Rule of Names”
- “The Wild Girls”
- “The Silence of the Asonu”
- “The Wife’s Story”
The following stories can be found in Ursula Le Guin’s The Wind’s Twelve Quarters:
- “The Word of Unbinding”
- “Winter’s King”
- “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow”
- “The Day Before the Revolution”
“The New Atlantis” is a standalone work that can be accessed at this web address: http://www.e-reading.link/chapter.php/72144/0/Le_Guin_-_The_New_Atlantis.html. All of the page numbers used to reference specific passages or quotations in the summary and analysis sections refer to pages in the aforementioned sources.