Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight"
Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
Genre(s)	Science fiction novelette
Publisher	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publication date	November 1987

Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight is a science fiction novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin, originally published in the November 1987 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and collected in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences.^[1]

It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.^[2]

Plot summary

A lost child tumbles into the confusing world of SouthWestern desert folklore and lives for a while with the trickster Coyote.

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Works by Ursula K. Le Guin

Bibliography — All Works — Adaptations

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)
"Dragonfly" (1997)
Tales from Earthsea (2001)
The Other Wind (2001)

related	Category:Earthsea History Earthsea Revisioned (1993)

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)

related	Category:Hainish Cycle

Other fiction

Novels	The Lathe of Heaven (1971) The Eye of the Heron (1978) Malafrena (1979) The Beginning Place (1980) Always Coming Home (1985) Annals of the Western Shore series (2004–2007) Lavinia (2008)

Short stories	"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1973) The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) Orsinian Tales (1976) The Compass Rose (1982) 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)

Picture books	Catwings (1988–1999)

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)

Hugo Award for Best Novelette

Retro Hugos	"Rule 18" by Clifford D. Simak (1939) "First Contact" by Murray Leinster (1946) "The Little Black Bag" by Cyril M. Kornbluth (1951) "Earthman, Come Home" by James Blish (1954)

1955–1960	"The Darfsteller" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1955) "Exploration Team" by Murray Leinster (1956) "The Big Time" by Fritz Leiber (1958) "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford D. Simak (1959)

1967–1980	"The Last Castle" by Jack Vance (1967) "Gonna Roll the Bones" by Fritz Leiber (1968) "The Sharing of Flesh" by Poul Anderson (1969) "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson (1973) "The Deathbird" by Harlan Ellison (1974) "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" by Harlan Ellison (1975) "The Borderland of Sol" by Larry Niven (1976) "The Bicentennial Man" by Isaac Asimov (1977) "Eyes of Amber" by Joan D. Vinge (1978) "Hunter's Moon" by Poul Anderson (1979) "Sandkings" by George R. R. Martin (1980)

1981–1990	"The Cloak and the Staff" by Gordon R. Dickson (1981) "Unicorn Variation" by Roger Zelazny (1982) "Fire Watch" by Connie Willis (1983) "Blood Music" by Greg Bear (1984) "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler (1985) "Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison (1986) "Permafrost" by Roger Zelazny (1987) "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988) "Schrödinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger (1989) "Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another" by Robert Silverberg (1990)

1991–2000	"The Manamouki" by Mike Resnick (1991) "Gold" by Isaac Asimov (1992) "The Nutcracker Coup" by Janet Kagan (1993) "Georgia on My Mind" by Charles Sheffield (1994) "The Martian Child" by David Gerrold (1995) "Think Like a Dinosaur" by James Patrick Kelly (1996) "Bicycle Repairman" by Bruce Sterling (1997) "We Will Drink a Fish Together..." by Bill Johnson (1998) "Taklamakan" by Bruce Sterling (1999) "10¹⁶ to 1" by James Patrick Kelly (2000)

2001–present	"Millennium Babies" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2001) "Hell Is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang (2002) "Slow Life" by Michael Swanwick (2003) "Legions in Time" by Michael Swanwick (2004) "The Faery Handbag" by Kelly Link (2005) "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (2006) "The Djinn's Wife" by Ian McDonald (2007) "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" by Ted Chiang (2008) "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear (2009) "The Island" by Peter Watts (2010) "The Emperor of Mars" by Allen Steele (2011) "Six Months, Three Days" by Charlie Jane Anders (2012) "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" by Pat Cadigan (2013)

World Fantasy Award for Best Novella

1982–1989	The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin (1982) Confess the Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983, tie) Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner (1983, tie) Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson (1984) The Unconquered Country by Geoff Ryman (1985) Nadelman's God by T.E.D. Klein (1986) Hatrack River by Orson Scott Card (1987) Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight by Ursula K. Le Guin (1988) The Skin Trade by George R. R. Martin (1989)

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