Ursula LeGuin's Social Science Fiction

Ursula K. Le Guin's Home Page
Le Guin's official home page opens with (of course!) a map of Earthsea. The website includes several essays by Le Guin, a biography and her publications list.

Ursula LeGuin Homepage
The official Ursula LeGuin home page opens with a map of Earthsea, and all kinds of resources about the writer and her work.

Quotes from Ursula K. LeGuin
A collection of quotations of LeGuin's, collected by About's guide to Women's History, Jone Johnson Lewis.

Ursula K. LeGuin
A brief biography from About's guide to Contemporary Literature, Mark Flanagan.

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed is an experiment, in which LeGuin takes an anarchic utopian society, the Annares. Written in 1974, the book follows this society built on the idea of a hippie commune and watches it fall apart.

The Earthsea Cycle
The Earthsea Cycle was one of those series that I waited for what seemed like centuries for the next book to come out; luckily for you, the cycle is now complete and can be bought as one neat package. Far more complex than could be contained in a single trilogy, the Earthsea cycle follows the lives of people on the oceanic planet of Earthsea.

The Lathe of Heaven
My flat-out favorite book of LeGuin's is the Lathe of Heaven, in which the protagonist George Orr discovers what attempting to make the world a better place is a dangerous pastime.

The Left Hand of Darkness
One of my very favorite of LeGuin's novels, The Left Hand of Darkness explores what it is to be male, and female, and ... both.

Worlds of Exile and Illusion
LeGuin's Hainish series began with Rocannon's World, and this fairly new collection includes three of the Hainish novels, including Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions.