Nate D’s Comments (group member since Sep 17, 2012)

Nate D’s comments from the Completists' Club group.

hahaha. right. Who says that? Though I guess this is the Completist's Club, so maybe we're the only target audience of that comment.

I finally read The Dispossessed! Finished today. In between, I read all of the other Hainish novels written pre-1980 except City of Illusion (and that soon!)

And now I'm going to Traveler's vast and somewhat confusing list above to collate a chronological list of all of her book-length works divided into FICTION, NONFICTION, and POETRY, because that is what would be most useful to me:

FICTION

Planet of Exile (1966, Hainish novel)
Rocannon's World (1966, Hainish novel)
City of Illusions (1967, Hainish novel)
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968, Earthsea novel)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, Hainish novel)
The Tombs of Atuan (1970, Earthsea novel)
The Lathe of Heaven (1971, Earthsea novel)
The Farthest Shore (1972, Earthsea novel)
The Dispossessed (1974, Hainish novel)
Orsinian Tales (1975, stories)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975, stories)
The Word for World Is Forest (1976, Hainish novel)
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else (1976)
The Eye of the Heron (1978)
Malafrena (1979)
The Beginning Place (1980)
The Adventure of Cobbler's Rune (1982)
The Compass Rose (1982, stories)
Solomon Leviathan's Nine-Hundred and Thirty-First Trip Around the World (1983)
Always Coming Home (1985)
Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987, stories)
The Visionary, Wonders Hidden (1988) (stories, with Scott Russell Sanders)
Catwings (1988, Catwings novel)
Catwings Return (1989, Catwings novel)
Tehanu (1990, Earthsea novel)
Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand (1991)
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back (1992)
Jane On Her Own (1992, Catwings novel)
The Earthsea Quartet (1993, stories)
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (1994, Catwings novel)
Science Fiction Stories (1994, stories)
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994, stories)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995, Hainish novel)
Tales of the Catwings (1996)
Unlocking the Air: And Other Stories (1996, stories)
More Tales of the Catwings (2000)
The Telling (2000, Hainish novel)
The Other Wind (2001, Earthsea novel)
The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories (2002)
Changing Planes (2003)
Gifts (2004)
Voices (2006)
Powers (2007)
Lavinia (2008)
Cat Dreams (2009, Catwings novel)
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women (2010) (with Katharine Kerr, Vonda N McIntyre and Sherwood Smith)
The Wild Girls (2011)
Where on Earth (2012)
Outer Space, Inner Lands (2012)

NONFICTION

From Elfland to Poughkeepsie (1973)
Dreams Must Explain Themselves (1975)
The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1979)
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (1984)
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (1989)
The Way of the Water's Going: Images of the Northern California Coastal Range (1989)
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination (2004)
Cheek by Jowl (2009)
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (2009)

POETRY

Finding My Elegy (poems) (2012)
Wild Angels (poems) (1974)
Walking in Cornwall (poems) (1976)
Hard Words: And Other Poems (poems) (1981)
In the Red Zone (poems) (1983)
Wild Oats and Fireweed: New Poems (poems) (1987)
Blue Moon over Thurman Street (poems) (1993)
Going Out With Peacocks: And Other Poems (poems) (1994)
Sixty Odd: New Poems (poems) (1999)
Incredible Good Fortune: New Poems (poems) (2006)

However, there's a chance there's a stray letter in the thread title.

I think I'm on board with this one, even only have read and enjoyed 98,6 and Death of the Novel so far.

A thread that has not been updated since before I began reading Carter? She deserves better! I appreciate this thread, though, for pointing out that I've still read fewer than half of her novels, and even less of the collections.

Seeing as this is a dead thread by a deleted user, I'll bounce this to say that I'm taking it up. I'm working backwards through the novels, then on (soon!) to the collections.

Yes! I think til now, I had the sole review of Four of Fools, so I'm glad for the (much more complete) company now!

Excellent! I should really be getting back to her given how much I loved both The Stain and Netsuke, however placed at the opposite poles of her literary output. I've only read half of the novels, and none of her essays, stories, or poetry.

There's a newer Roadside Picnic translation form a year or two ago that is still in print -- and most excellent.

Definitely looking forward to checking out more of their works now. So exciting that two of their novels just came back into print this year!

Quite. There's a definite continuity, but she altered her style and became more experimental from Asylum Piece on.

Yeah, I actually found Underworld pretty bloated and ponderous. Some fabulous stand-alone sections, though, granted. White Noise is all highlights, however.

skipped over an important detail there: no W&M, just Lookout Cartridge, but it sounds pretty interesting.

A couple weeks ago, I found a nice old hardcover (first edition?!) on the street in a box outside the grocery store. So that will be the first of these that I read.

Very good, I've even seen copies of those around. I'd be interested to read your translations, as well, if you've made those public somehow.

So having loved Paysan and Telemachus I'm now rather desperate for more. Any other key prose works I should be running down? Was the complete l'infini ever translated?

In time, I will. I just didn't want to start with it!

I'm probably just a sucker for painted covers. From the 60s. But yeah, I'll definitely be continuing with Reed. Especially now that I'm over the hurdle of having accidentally picked up Terrible Threes at a Dalkey sale only to find out that that would be the worst place to start.

Freelance Pallbearers is great. Maybe I'll go all chronological on this. Plus, the 1969 Bantam I stumbled on looks like this in best 60s-book-design mode:

The Song of Styrene! It really is so great.

Not actually me back there, but Elizabeth!