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Nine Lives

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

On a distant mining planet, two men must work with a group of ten clones, five male and five female, who are completely reliant on themselves and on one another.

Notes

This was the first story by a woman published in Playboy, though published under the name U. K. Le Guin to conceal her gender.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1970 Nebula Award Novelette Runner-up

Publications (97)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1970 World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 Ace Books Anthology 302
May 1970 The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 3 Sphere Books Anthology 85
August 1970 Best SF: 1969 G. P. Putnam's Sons Anthology 91
September 1970 World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 Ace Books / SFBC Anthology 292
October 1970 World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 Gollancz Anthology
November 1970 Nebula Award Stories 5 Gollancz Anthology 65
December 1970 Nebula Award Stories Five Doubleday Anthology 64
1971 The Dead Astronaut Playboy Press Anthology 51
April 1971 Best SF: 1969 Berkley Medallion Anthology 89
April 1971 Best SF: 1969 Berkley Medallion Anthology 89
January 1972 Nebula Award Stories Five Pocket Books Anthology 56
November 1972 Nebula Award Stories Five Pocket Books Anthology 56
December 1972 Nebula Award Stories 5 Panther Anthology 52
September 1973 Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader Mentor / New American Library Anthology 179
1974 As Tomorrow Becomes Today Prentice-Hall Anthology 394
1974 Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction Rand McNally & Company Anthology 72
1974 Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye McGraw-Hill Anthology 322
1974 Modern Science Fiction Anchor Press / Doubleday Anthology 506
1974 As Tomorrow Becomes Today Prentice-Hall Anthology 394
1974 Modern Science Fiction Anchor Press / Doubleday Anthology 506
April 1974 Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction Rand McNally & Company Anthology 72
1975 Strange Glory McClelland & Stewart Anthology 97
July 1975 In Dreams Awake Dell Laurel Anthology 289
October 1975 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 129
1976 Beyond Tomorrow Wren (Australia) Anthology 21
1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 129
March 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row / SFBC Collection 105
June 1976 Bio-Futures Vintage Books Anthology 97
June 1976 Modern Science Fiction Gregg Press Anthology 506
June 1976 Bio-Futures Vintage Books Anthology 97
October 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 119
1977 Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction Rand McNally College Publishing Co. Anthology 157
1977 Strange Glory St. Martin's Press Anthology 97
1977 Strange Glory St. Martin's Press Anthology 97
February 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 119
July 1977 Beyond Tomorrow New English Library Anthology 24
September 1977 Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader Mentor / New American Library Anthology 179
September 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 119
1978 Approaches to Science Fiction Houghton Mifflin Anthology 385
1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 129
1978 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 307
May 1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume I Panther / Granada Collection 128
June 1978 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 307
1979 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume I Panther / Granada Collection 128
March 1979 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 119
March 1981 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 120
March 1983 Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Anthology 157
1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection
September 1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection
1988 Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology Harper & Row Anthology 391
1988 Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories Macmillan Anthology 932
January 1989 The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown / BOMC Anthology 572
February 1989 The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown Anthology 572
June 1989 The World Treasury of Science Fiction Little, Brown / QPBC Anthology 572
November 1989 The Wind's Twelve Quarters VGSF / Gollancz Collection 129
1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection 129
April 1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperPaperbacks Collection 163
February 1992 Nine Lives Pulphouse Publishing Chapbook
February 1992 Nine Lives Pulphouse Publishing Chapbook
July 1994 The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF Tor Anthology 43
October 1994 The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF Orbit Anthology 43
October 1994 The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF Tor / SFBC Anthology 43
April 1996 Those Who Can: A Science Fiction Reader St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 179
September 1997 The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF Orb Anthology 43
1998 Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology: The SFWA-SFRA Anthology HarperCollins Anthology
February 1998 Tales in Space Borealis / White Wolf Publishing Anthology 47
April 1998 Clones! Ace Books Anthology 1
May 1998 The Playboy Book of Science Fiction HarperPrism Anthology 35
September 1998 The Playboy Book of Science Fiction HarperPrism / SFBC Anthology 35
February 1999 The Playboy Book of Science Fiction HarperPrism Anthology 35
October 2000 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 129
2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
December 2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial / HarperCollins Collection
April 2009 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Paw Prints Collection
August 2010 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 452
August 2010 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction Wesleyan University Press Anthology 452
November 2012 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection 29
November 2012 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection
2013 Outer Space, Inner Lands Small Beer Press Collection 29
June 2013 Clones Baen Books Anthology
April 2014 Outer Space, Inner Lands Recorded Books Collection |29
July 2014 Outer Space, Inner Lands Gollancz Collection 29
January 2015 Outer Space, Inner Lands Gollancz Collection 29
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 119
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gateway / Orion Collection
October 2016 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus 359
October 2016 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2016 The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
February 2017 Nine Lives Harper Perennial Chapbook
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
November 2017 The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2017 The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
October 2018 The Future Is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, From Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin The Library of America Anthology 457
October 2018 The Future Is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, From Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin The Library of America Anthology |457
October 2021 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperAudio Collection |129
September 2022 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection 128