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The Birthday of the World

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published June 2000
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Notes

First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2000.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
2001 Locus Poll Award Best Novelette Winner
2001 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Best Short Science Fiction Nominee/Finalist

Publications (19)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 2000 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2000 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 7
June 2001 Year's Best SF 6 Eos / HarperCollins Anthology 214
July 2001 Year's Best SF 6 Eos / HarperCollins / SFBC Anthology 214
July 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC Anthology 51
August 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 42
August 2001 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 42
September 2001 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 14th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology 47
March 2002 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories HarperCollinsPublishers Collection 213
January 2003 The Birthday of the World Gollancz / Orion Collection 213
January 2003 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Gollancz Collection 213
March 2003 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Perennial / HarperCollins Collection 213
August 2003 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology
January 2004 The Birthday of the World Gollancz / Orion Collection 213
April 2006 ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories Omnidawn Publishing Anthology 596
April 2006 ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories Omnidawn Publishing Anthology 588
October 2009 Year's Best SF 6 HarperCollins e-books Anthology
October 2009 The Birthday of the World HarperCollins e-books Collection
September 2010 The Birthday of the World and Other Stories Gollancz / Orion Collection
March 2012 The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 14th Annual Collection Robinson Anthology |47