I've been recommending this short story collection to family and friends for a while now and am so excited that it's finally available in print form. With all the hallmarks of Le Guin's usual style - rich and highly imaginative concepts with a deeply human touch - these are stories made to haunt; stories that will continue echoing in the mind long after the final pages. These are stories about story, exploring the nature of reality and the strange solitude of human experience. These are also stories about distance, and how emotional and physical distance can intertwine or oppose one another from one moment to the next. Beautiful and fascinating in equal measure, each and every story in this collection is thoroughly enjoyable, but I have a particular soft spot for the final 3: The Shobies' Story, Dancing to Ganam, and Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.