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These are Ursula's positive recommendations for and of works, gleaned from various sources.

• Emshwiller, Carol. Ledoyt (see review at: http://www.sfwa.org/members/emshwiller/LEDOYT.htmt)
• Gloss, Molly. The Dazzle of Day (a generation ship story, which UKL described as "remarkable" in the foreword to The Birthday of the World (2002))
• Jeffers, Robinson. "Original Sin." "Robinson Jeffers's 'Original Sin' describes the 'happy hunters' of the Stone Age, puzzled how to kill the mammoth trapped in their pitfall, discovering that they can do so by building fires around it and roasting it alive all day. ... :This may be wrongheaded, but I prefer it to the generous but sloppy identifications of Walt Whitman. Where Whitman takes the animal into his vast, intensely civilized ego, possesses it, engulfs and annihilates it, Jeffers at least reaches out and touches the animal, the Other, through pain, and releases it."
  --- from Introduction to Buffalo Gals (1987)
• Kipling, Rudyard. Jungle Books. "... I think the Jungle Books, along with the other 'children's story,' Kim, are Kipling's finest work, and consider the Just So Stories a unique and miraculous interaction of prose with poetry with graphics, of adult mind with child mind, and of written with oral literature &em; a shining intersection among endless dreary one-way streets ...."
  --- from Introduction to Buffalo Gals (1987)
• Levertov, Denise. "Come Into Animal Presence" "Denise Levertov's poem ... honors my book, and stands here as its true introduction."
  --- from Introduction to Buffalo Gals (1987)
• Martinson, Harry. Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space (a generation ship story, which UKL described as "remarkable" in the foreword to The Birthday of the World (2002))
• Rilke, Rainer Maria. "The Eighth Elegy" from "The Duino Elegies"; translated and published in Buffalo Gals (1987)
• Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Les Roses"; one of Rilke's French poems. "Set as a motto" for The Compass Rose (1982)
• Twain, Mark. The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Wrote introduction for 1996 Oxford Univ. Press edition.
• Van Der Veer, Judy. November Grass (1940). Le Guin wrote introduction for 2001 edition.