History Creator / UrsulaKLeGuin

** ''Literature/RocannonsWorld'' (In which the SubspaceAnsible is [[TropeNamer named]].)
** ''Literature/PlanetOfExile''
** ''Literature/CityOfIllusions''[[index]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: The protagonist of ''Very Far Away From Anywhere Else'' is never explicitly stated to be on the autism spectrum (and given when it was written, it's unlikely Le Guin knew what that was), but he has a lot of the traits associated with it.

* ''Always Coming Home''

* TheAlternet: The City of Mind in ''Always Coming Home'' (1985).

* AwesomeButImpractical: ''Always Coming Home'' features a post-industrial society where most societies manage without advanced technology. One expansionist state decided to look up ancient weapon designs on the Internet (there are [=AIs=] maintaining a version of it -- in a book published in 1985). Since their society has a religion based around condors, they make a few military planes. However, it's a PostPeakOil world, and they find out rather quickly that it's very hard to expand when all the food has been converted into biofuel...

* IWillFindYou: One of the Kesh stories in ''Always Coming Home'' is about a young woman who goes missing. Her boyfriend is desperate to find her again, but it's only a fragment, so we never learn if he does.

* PostPeakOil: ''Always Coming Home'' features a post-industrial society without oil. Most societies manage without advanced technology, but there are [=AIs=] maintaining a database and a version of Internet (the book was published in 1985!). One expansionist state decided to build a few military planes. Turned out it was AwesomeButImpractical under the circumstances. As in "the empire collapses after a year due to wasting all their food making biofuel".
* PuttingOnTheReich: The Dayao people from Always Coming Home''. A nation witn a large bird as their symbol, only consider themselves as human, StayInTheKitchen and ProudWarriorRace mentality (military marches of youth attached). Then they try to launch a campaign of conquest for living space, but run into the problems of faction infighting, limited resources, and obsession with AwesomeButImpractical superweapons at the expense of a properly equipped army.

* SolarPunk: ''Always Coming Home'', which is set in a distant and seemingly postapocalyptic future, is written as an ethnography of the Kesh culture, whose agrarian (athough they've got Internet... in a book written in the 1980s) classless society is depicted in sharp contrast with the warlike, stratified, and expansionist Dayao.
* ThankYourPrey: In ''Always Coming Home'', the Kesh always do this when butchering animals, even if they just mutter it in a perfunctory fashion.

Ursula Krober Le Guin (October 21, 1929 -- January 22, 2018) was a prolific American writer, and is most known for her SpeculativeFiction novels, although she also wrote poetry, nonfiction, and young adult novels. She was the daughter of a well known anthropologist and it shows in her world building which rejects the standard Eurocentric models. Her works often explore cultural, sociological, ecological, or feminist themes; UsefulNotes/{{anarchism}} and UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} also occasionally show up subtly (she is probably the best-known Western Taoist and has both written a commentary on and translated the ''Tao Te Ching'') or, in the case of ''The Dispossessed'', not so subtly (Anarres is an anarcho-communist society; this is a political book but not an {{anvilicious}} one: the subtitle is ''An '''''Ambiguous''''' Utopia'', and a central theme of the work is that Anarres has decayed in the years since its founding due in no small part to ideology and bureaucracy replacing revolutionary fervour). Her works have greatly influenced modern {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction authors, with systems, words, and ideas from her works showing up so often that some have become tropes in and of themselves. One of these was her coining of the word [[SubspaceAnsible ansible]], which has appeared in numerous scifi works since.

* The Fisherman of the Inland Sea

* ''Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas''

Ursula Krober Le Guin (October 21, 1929-January 22, 2018) was a prolific American writer, and is most known for her SpeculativeFiction novels, although she also wrote poetry, nonfiction, and young adult novels. She was the daughter of a well known anthropologist and it shows in her world building which rejects the standard Eurocentric models. Her works often explore cultural, sociological, ecological, or feminist themes; UsefulNotes/{{anarchism}} and UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} also occasionally show up subtly (she is probably the best-known Western Taoist and has both written a commentary on and translated the ''Tao Te Ching'') or, in the case of ''The Dispossessed'', not so subtly (Anarres is an anarcho-communist society; this is a political book but not an {{anvilicious}} one: the subtitle is ''An '''''Ambiguous''''' Utopia'', and a central theme of the work is that Anarres has decayed in the years since its founding due in no small part to ideology and bureaucracy replacing revolutionary fervour). Her works have greatly influenced modern {{Fantasy}} and ScienceFiction authors, with systems, words, and ideas from her works showing up so often that some have become tropes in and of themselves. One of these was her coining of the word [[SubspaceAnsible ansible]], which has appeared in numerous scifi works since.

* {{Asexuality}}: In ''Very Far Away From Anywhere Else'', the protagonist mentions that he's never really understood why his high-school classmates are so interested in sex.

* "Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas"

* AngstySurvivingTwin: "Literature/NineLives": The story is about his attempt to [[RogueDrone come to terms with being an individual after the rest of his "siblings" are killed]] (the clones having been bred and raised as SingleMindedTwins).

* RogueDrone: "Literature/NineLives": The story is about his attempt to [[AngstySurvivingTwin come to terms with being an individual after the rest of his "siblings" are killed]] (the clones having been bred and raised as SingleMindedTwins).

* ScrewYourself: "Literature/NineLives": A set of ten clones, five male and five female, join someplace where there were already two normal people working. When the clones have sex with each other, one of the non-clones says, "Oh, let them have their damned incest!" and the other says, "Incest or masturbation?" (The clone-sex wasn't a major plot point, just a part of showing how the clone-group couldn't relate properly to outsiders.)
* SingleMindedTwins: "Literature/NineLives": 10 clones who were essentially one being. [[spoiler:When nine of them died in an accident, [[AngstySurvivingTwin the survivor considered himself "nine-tenths dead" and nearly lost his will to live]].]]

->''"If a book told you something when you were 15, it will tell it to you again when you’re 50, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book."

** ''Catwings''

Her Earthsea novels have twice been adapted to visual medium. One is the oft-maligned [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] miniseries ''Series/{{Earthsea}}'' and the other is the Creator/StudioGhibli film ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea.'' Le Guin made no secret of the fact that she was [[AdaptationDecay not particularly fond of either adaptation]], though she was rather more charitable towards Studio Ghibli. She was herself very keen on a planned adaptation of the first Earthsea book with director Creator/MichaelPowell (of ''The Red Shoes'' and ''Black Narcissus'' fame) a screenplay of which was previously published, and regretted that it never received funding. The one adaptation she did work closely on was a popular Creator/{{PBS}} TV movie of ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'' as a creative consultant.

Her Earthsea novels have twice been adapted to visual medium. One is the oft-maligned [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] miniseries ''Series/{{Earthsea}}'' and the other is the Creator/StudioGhibli film ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea.'' Le Guin made no secret of the fact that she was [[AdaptationDecay not particularly fond of either adaptation]], though she was rather more charitable towards Studio Ghibli. She was herself very keen on a planned adaptation of the first Earthsea book with director Creator/MichaelPowell (of ''The Red Shoes'' and ''Black Narcissus'' fame) a screenplay of which was previously published, and regretted that it never received funding. The one adaptation she did work closely on was a popular Creator/{{PBS}} TV movie of ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven''.

Her Earthsea novels have twice been adapted to visual medium. One is the oft-maligned [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci Fi Channel]] miniseries ''Series/{{Earthsea}}'' and the other is the Creator/StudioGhibli film ''Anime/TalesFromEarthsea.'' Le Guin made no secret of the fact that she was [[AdaptationDecay not particularly fond of either adaptation]], though she was rather more charitable towards Studio Ghibli. She was herself very keen on a planned adaptation of the first Earthsea book with director Creator/MichaelPowell (of ''The Red Shoes'' and ''Black Narcissus'' fame) a screenplay of which was previously published, and regretted that it never received funding.