We deserve a real Table of Contents on an audiobook, and I hope this shortcoming will be corrected. I get that some people don't know the difference between a novel and a story collection, and that of the latter group a large proportion simply read or listen to stories in order, but I'm not one of them and neither should be the Audible curators. The only way I knew to do this was that I have original print copies of both volumes of The Unreal and the Real, and could refer to the Table of Contents in each to determine the order in which the stories occur. To locate some stories, one must scrub along through the previous story to the end. The problem is that this is a collection of short stories, but the chapter breaks inserted by Audible do not in all cases correspond to the beginning of a new story. The Unreal and the Real is a collection of some of Ursula K. Le Guin herself as representative of her best "non-genre" (an admittedly arbitrary categorization) work. Le Guin - selected by the author, and combined in one volume for the first time. The stories in this collection are superb, having been selected by the late Ms.
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