Collection of 13 novellas by Ursula K LeGuin. All of the stories were winners, but my faves were "The Matter of Seggri", "Another Story or Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (I'd already read it), "Old Music & the Slave Women", & "Paradises Lost". "Seggri" probably had some of the best quotable quotes in the collection, and the best use of the term "fuckery" I've ever seen or heard anywhere. "Another Story" captures the feeling of sadness for every decision in life forfeited by every other decision one makes. "Old Music" illustrates the complexities of what happens when the liberation finally arrives for the subjugated. "Paradises Lost" seems like it was the much more successful (fiction-wise) inspiration for Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora. The 3 Earthsea-set novellas make me want to pick up the Earthsea books. I wish I'd read all of these earlier, but who knows if I would have been ready to absorb them before right now? I wish there were more notes about each novella; maybe that means I should just read more of LeGuin's nonfiction.