Nine Lives (novelette)

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"Nine Lives"
Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science Fiction
Published in	Playboy
Publication type	Magazine
Media type	Print
Publication date	1969

"Nine Lives" is a 1969 science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin. Originally published in Playboy magazine, it was reprinted in The Wind's Twelve Quarters, the story is about what human cloning does to one's perception of the self, and among other things explores bisexual bonding between clones.

It was nominated to the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.^[1]

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^ "Nebula Awards Nominees List". The Locus Index to SF Awards. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula1970.html. Retrieved 2011-07-09.

Bibliography

v t e Works by Ursula K. Le Guin – (bibliography)

Earthsea	"The Word of Unbinding" (1964) "The Finder" (2001) "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) "The Rule of Names" (1964) "The Bones of the Earth" (2001) A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) The Tombs of Atuan (1971) "On the High Marsh" (2001) The Farthest Shore (1972) Tehanu (1990) "Earthsea Revisioned" (1993) "Dragonfly" (1997) Tales from Earthsea (2001) The Other Wind (2001)

Hainish Cycle	"Dowry of the Angyar" (1964) Rocannon's World (1966) Planet of Exile (1966) City of Illusions (1967) The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) "Winter's King" (1969) "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971) The Dispossessed (1974) "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) The Word for World Is Forest (1976) "The Shobies' Story" (1990) "Dancing to Ganam" (1993) "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994) "The Matter of Seggri" (1994) "Unchosen Love" (1994) "Solitude" (1994) Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995) "Mountain Ways" (1996) "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999) The Telling (2000)

Other fiction (novels bold)	The Lathe of Heaven (1971) "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) Orsinian Tales (1976) The Eye of the Heron (1978) Malafrena (1979) The Beginning Place (1980) The Compass Rose (1982) Always Coming Home (1985) Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) Searoad (1991) A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) The Birthday of the World (2002) Changing Planes (2003) Lavinia (2008)

Nonfiction	The Language of the Night (1979) Dancing at the Edge of the World (1982) Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (1997) Steering the Craft (1998) The Wave in the Mind (2004)

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