Library of America: Probably the first thing to be noted about Always Coming Home is its truly capacious form: the book comprises prose narratives, poems, folktales for adults and children, verse dramas, recipes, an alphabet and glossary, maps, and of course Margaret Chodos-Irvine’s indispensable illustrations. In addition to having edited Library of America’s three previous volumes of Le Guin’s fiction, he edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) with Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler and is the author of Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other works. The editor of the new LOA volume is Brian Attebery, professor of English at Idaho State University. It includes sixty-five pages of new writing by Le Guin the complete text of the novella-within-the-novel, Dangerous People and several essays in which Le Guin reflects on the novel’s genesis and larger aims.
This richly-woven vision of post-apocalyptic California now appears in a newly expanded version prepared in consultation with the author shortly before her death in January 2018. Le Guin edition has just grown substantially with the release of Always Coming Home, originally published in 1985 and arguably her most ambitious work. Le Guin book that breaks the novel form “wide open”
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