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Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published 2024
Publisher Evertype
Format Trade Paperback
Type Collection
Cover art cobalt88
Pages xxiv+222
ISBN 9781782013266

  • Limited edition of 17 copies, the first 16 of which state that the limitation was to 16 copies, the 17th copy printed later emending the limitation statement.
  • This book reproduces in facsimile the five published editions of VEMS and offers an analysis of the differences between them. It presents a draft text for resolution of the anomalies to establish a canonical text. Facsimiles are from the following editions:
    • 1971 New Dimensions 1 [ND1]
    • 1975 Wind's Twelve Quarters [WTQ]
    • 1987 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences [BUF]
    • 2016 The Found and the Lost [FAL]
    • 2017 Hainish Novels and Stories [HN1]
    • 2024 Draft Consolidated Text (this volume) [DCT]
  • Cover artist is from Poland and uses that pseudonym.