Unlocking the Air and Other Stories


Unlocking the Air and Other Stories is a 1996 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. Like Searoad and Orsinian Tales, most of the included stories are neither science fiction nor fantasy. It was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Contents

  • "Half Past Four"
  • "The Professor's Houses"
  • "Ruby on the 67"
  • "Limberlost"
  • "The Creatures on My Mind"
  • "Standing Ground"
  • "The Spoons in the Basement"
  • "Sunday in Summer in Seatown"
  • "In the Drought"
  • "Ether, OR"
  • "Unlocking the Air"
  • "A Child Bride"
  • "Climbing to the Moon"
  • "Daddy's Big Girl"
  • "Findings"
  • "Olders"
  • "The Wise Woman"
  • "The Poacher"