"The Asonu"
| Title | "The Asonu" |
| Year for Search | 1998 |
| Authors | Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018) |
| Secondary Title | Orion: People and Nature |
| Volume / Edition | 17.4 |
| Pagination | 26-28, 31-32 |
| Date Published | Autumn 1998 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. as "The Silence of the Asonu." In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12. |
| Info Notes | Various sources say that the title was originally "The Wisdom of the Asonu," but the title given here is the title in the journal. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (1929-2018) |
| Full Text | 1998 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “The Asonu.” Orion: People and Nature 17.4 (Autumn 1998): 26-28, 31-32. Various sources say that the title was originally “The Wisdom of the Asonu,” but the title given here is the title in the journal. Rpt. as “The Silence of the Asonu.” In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12. PSt An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics. Female author. |
