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Title: Always Coming Home Title Record # 2433
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: 1985-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Kesh / Always Coming Home
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Note:
  • This work is structured more as an anthropological study than a novel, and contains quite a number of separately titled poems, songs and stories. Some of them have been published by themselves.
  • Of the first edition, Ursula writes (in Locus #301): The boxed hardcover with cassette, called the "deluxe edition" by the publisher came out simultaneously with the trade paperback. "The boxed hardcover sold out very promptly, but new boxes were produced for it. ... As for the unboxed hardcover without cassette, this is the "library edition" ... for librarians who thought they did not want to handle the cassette. If this means that there are actually three first edition, I can only say *sigh* -- forget it. The cassette is part of the book, anyhow."
Synopsis: The Kesh people in the Valley and the Condor people in The City regularly meet. They influence each other, and some Kesh try to emulate the Condor. Sometimes there's conflict. Stone Telling records her own experience with this, daughter of a Kesh woman and a Condor man, growing up with her mother, living with her father in The City for a while. -- This is only one story among many in this book.
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Current Tags: anthropology (1), ethnography (1), science fiction (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1992
  • Translated by Aleksandar B. Nedeljković
Serbian
Stalno se vraćajući kući?Stalno se vracajuci kuci
Stalno se vrachajuchi kuchi
[as by Ursula Legvin]
2012Translated by Isabelle Reinharez
French La vallée de l'éternel retour [as by Ursula Le Guin]
2023Translated by Matthias Fersterer, Karen Nölle and Helmut W. Pesch The translation is based on the English edition which was revised and expanded by the author and published by The Library of America in 2019.
German Immer nach Hause

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Always Coming Home 1985-10-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper & Row 0-06-015456-X
$25.00?$: US dollar
523+
[2]
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel John Wagner Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1985-10-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper & Row 0-06-015545-0
$50.00?$: US dollar
525
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel John Wagner Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1986-00-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper & Row 0-06-015456-X
$25.00?$: US dollar
523+
[2]
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel John Wagner Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1986-01-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Bantam Spectra 0-553-26280-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
563
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Chris Hopkins Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1986-02-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper & Row / SFBC 045666
$14.98?$: US dollar
525
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel John Wagner  
Always Coming Home 1986-06-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz 0-575-03855-1
£10.95?£: UK pound
525
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1986-06-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz 0-575-03860-8
£40.00?£: UK pound
544
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
Always Coming Home: The Music and Poetry of the Kesh 1986-07-01 Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz 0-575-03859-4    
audio cassette?Cassette tape
novel  
Always Coming Home 1987-01-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Bantam Spectra 0-553-26280-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
563
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel  
Always Coming Home 1988-02-00 Ursula K. Le Guin Grafton 0-586-07383-3
£5.95?£: UK pound
525
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Mike van Houten Checkmark
Stalno se vraćajući kući?Stalno se vracajuci kuci
Stalno se vrachajuchi kuchi
1992-00-00 Ursula Legvin Polaris Beograd (SF biblioteka Polaris)     522
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Michael Whelan Checkmark
Always Coming Home 1993-08-00 Ursula K. Le Guin HarperCollins (UK) 0-00-647595-7
£5.99?£: UK pound
563
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
Always Coming Home 2001-03-00 Ursula K. Le Guin University of California Press 0-520-22735-2
$14.95?$: US dollar
523+
[2]
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Granville Redmond Checkmark
La vallée de l'éternel retour 2012-04-09 Ursula Le Guin
Mnémos?Mnemos
(Ourobores)
978-2-35408-135-5
€29.00?€: Euro
545
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Diego Tripodi  
Always Coming Home 2016-07-14 Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II)) 978-1-4732-0580-2
£9.99?£: UK pound
xi+
525
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Christopher Gibbs  
Always Coming Home 2016-07-14 Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II)) 978-1-4732-0581-9
£6.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel Christopher Gibbs  
Always Coming Home 2019-02-19 Ursula K. Le Guin The Library of America (The Library of America #315) 978-1-59853-603-4
$35.00?$: US dollar
800
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel  
Always Coming Home 2019-03-05 Ursula K. Le Guin The Library of America (The Library of America #315) 978-1-59853-604-1
$16.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
Always Coming Home 2023-06-27 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper Perennial 978-0-358-72692-0
$24.99?$: US dollar
640
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
Always Coming Home 2023-06-27 Ursula K. Le Guin Harper Perennial 978-0-06-327471-6
$12.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
Immer nach Hause 2023-10-16 Ursula K. Le Guin Carcosa Verlag 978-3-910914-00-1
€48.00?€: Euro
859
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel
s.BENeš?s.BENes
Checkmark
Always Coming Home date unknown Ursula K. Le Guin Bantam Spectra 0-553-26280-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
ix+
563
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Chris Hopkins Checkmark
Always Coming Home date unknown Ursula K. Le Guin Bantam Spectra 0-553-26280-7
$4.95?$: US dollar
563
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Chris Hopkins Checkmark
Always Coming Home date unknown Ursula K. Le Guin Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II)) 978-1-4732-0580-2
£9.99?£: UK pound
xi+
525
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Christopher Gibbs Checkmark
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