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May's Lion

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published September 1987
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Originally appeared in 1983 in the fourteenth volume (combined numbers one and two) of The Little Magazine. According to Le Guin's introduction to "Buffalo Gals", this story was written while she was working on "Always Coming Home" and is thematically related, but it is not set in the same universe.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1987 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Capra Press Collection 179|179.2
September 1988 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume / New American Library Collection 179
1989 With a Fly's Eye, Whale's Wit, and Woman's Heart: Animals and Women Cleis Press Anthology 55
1989 Cover With a Fly's Eye, Whale's Wit, and Woman's Heart: Animals and Women Cleis Press Anthology 55
March 1990 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Gollancz Collection 179
October 1990 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 214
1991 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 214
December 1991 Cover Magicats II Ace Books Anthology 143
June 1994 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume Collection 179
December 1994 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 179
November 2012 Cover Where on Earth Small Beer Press Collection 127
November 2012 Cover Where on Earth Small Beer Press Collection
March 2013 Cover Magicats II Baen Books Anthology
January 2014 Cover Where on Earth Recorded Books Collection |127
May 2014 Cover Where on Earth Gollancz Collection 127
October 2014 Cover Where on Earth Gollancz Collection 127
October 2016 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus 147
October 2016 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2016 Cover The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2017 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2017 Cover The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
February 2019 Cover Always Coming Home: Author's Expanded Edition The Library of America Novel 691