Le Guin's Future History: 
An Internal Choronology of Her Science Fiction

H = Hainish Novel 
AD = our calendar/ LY = League Year/ EY = Ekumenical Year
The beginning of this chronology was originally worked out by Ian Watson in his article "Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator." Science Fiction Studies 5.2 (March 1975): 67-75. 

For a complete bibliography of all of LeGuin's works, go to The Unofficial Ursula LeGuin Page.


S

Date

Work

Ekumen Date
1964 (H) "Dowry of the Angyar" v.t. "Semeley's Necklace" AD 2388/ LY 254
1966 (H) Rocannon's World AD 2468/ LY 334
1966 (H)Planet of Exile AAD 3755/ LY 1405
1967 (H) City of Illusion AD 4370/ LY 2020
1969 (H) The Left Hand of Darkness
**Hugo & Nebula**		 AD 4870/ LY 2520/ EY 1491
1971 The Lathe of Heaven AD 2002/ founding story
1971 (H) "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Early decades of the League
1974 The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
**Hugo & Nebula**		 AD 2300
1975 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Various short stories
1976 (H) The Word for World is Forest AD 2368/ LY 18
1978 (H) The Eye of the Heron Novella
1982 The Compass Rose Various Short tories
1985 Always Coming Home Set in ambiuous California
1994 A Fisherman of the Inland Sea Various short stories
1995 (H) Four Way to Forgiveness Four Novellas
2000 H) The Telling