The Found and the Lost

The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan, Jefferson Mays

Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time - and introduced by the legendary author - in one breathtaking volume.

Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades, from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud awards. She has had her work collected over the years but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works, as represented in the wonderful The Found and the Lost. This collection is a literary treasure chest that belongs in every home library.

©2016 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2016 Recorded Books

Le Guin is unparalleled in sci-fi

[Look for the top comment with time stamps and titles, bc Audible doesn't provide any of that for this collection for whatever reason.]

I'd read several of these stories before (particularly the Earthsea ones and two others), but I enjoyed the performances of the narrators and listened again. Le Guin writes sci-fi at its best: thinking about what humans would do in wildly different circumstances or cultures. Her characters are complex, and the conflicts in her stories are never black and white, never didactic. My favorite story in this collection is the last one: Paradises Lost. I've read a lot of sci-fi about generation ships, esp in the past few years, but I've never seen it done better than this one (okay there's one by Ted Chiang that comes close, but it's more about transhumanism and I can't find the name of it at present). Great collection!

Outstanding. Period.

This isn’t genre-fiction. It’s Ursula K. Le Guin. If you want to know the difference, you cannot have a better introduction than this excellent and wide ranging collection. They are beautifully voiced by two of the best narrators around. All in all, a deeply immersive, profoundly satisfying read.

great read

stories compelling, narration excellent, mordant social commentary in the guise of great sci-fi/ fantasy. format works great for training for a long run. recommended! PS: one of the better stories (Matter of Segre) is also found in the less-good anthology The Unreal and The Real. I recommend this collection much more highly than TUaTR.

very good

I loved the variety of stories and hearing about my dear friend ged once more. the only problem I found wasn't a book or story issue but is the listing of chapter numbers vs story names and titles. I LOVED the final story and a few between but it would be hard to go back to the beginning of them to re "read" it.

Le Guin's works are everything Sci-fi should be

From space adventure to contemporary drama to high fantasy, Le Guin mixes rich imaginings with deep and compelling characters.

Whether you're a Star Trek fan or a lover of her Earthsea fiction, there's stories for you to love in this compelation.

Can't recommend it enough.

Wonderful stories

This is an well performed collection of short stories and short novellas. I really liked how they spanned all around Ms. Le Guin's universes. After having read some of he novels, it's wonderful to see those worlds further explored.

Thoroughly Enjoyable

I've relished this author's works more than fourth years now and have always enjoy the psycho-social ponderings of writers such as Le Guin who exam gender roles in non-traditional fantastical cultures. The narration was very engaging. Being new to audio books, It was surprisingly effortless to give over control to the narrator. Good story telling!

Wonderful discovery

I was delighted with this introduction to the writing of LeGuin. Although some stories may have been more meaningful with greater familiarity of her “worlds” I still came away with great appreciation of her unique way of seeing things that are timeless. I will certainly read more.
It was unfortunate that the chapters are only numbered and not grouped by story.

So many great stories

one of the truly great SF writers all collected up here. not a fan of some of the narration. it's done well but the voice and cadence were not for me.

UKLG is awesome. Editor of this collection is not

As others have stated, and as a fan of UKLG, her stories are well written and fascinating. However the poorly edited collection leaves a lot to be desired.

The dumping of all chapters into a numbered list without context sucks and makes it tough to enjoy. Fortunately a listener has gone through the trouble of listing each book and its beginning chapter.

I would have appreciated a little further context for each of the stories, but obviously none are included. So far I am not really loving it despite my previous experience with UKLG and The Left Hand of Darkness, EarthSea, etc.

I got this book on sale, 2 for 1 maybe, so it's not a terrible waste but it's not super engaging or a fun listen either. Comme ci comme ça.