From the Book - First edition.
Towards an archaeology of the future --
Stone telling, part one --
Chart of the nine houses --
Pandora worries about what she is doing: the pattern --
Some stories told aloud one evening... --
How to die in the valley --
Pandora sitting by the creek --
At the springs of Orlu --
The trouble with the cotton people --
Pandora worrying about what she is doing: she addresses the reader with agitation --
Big man and little man --
Stone telling, part two --
A note on the valley stage --
The shouting man, the red woman, and the bears --
Pandora, worrying about what she is doing, finds a way into the valley through the scrub oak --
The bright void of the wind --
The third child's story --
The visionary: the life story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-na --
Some brief valley texts --
Pandora converses with the archivist of the library of the Madrone Lodge at Wakwaha-na --
Dangerous people ; A note about the novel ; Chapter two ; Pandora gently to the gentle reader --
Stone telling, part three --
Messages concerning the condor --
About a meeting concerning the warriors --
From the people of the houses of earth in the valley --
Some of the other people of the valley --
Animals of the Obsidian --
Animals of the Blue Clay --
Lodges, societies, arts --
What they wore in the valley --
Kesh musical instruments --
Some notes on medical practices --
A treatise on practices --
Some generative metaphors --
Three poems by Pandora --
Living on the coast, energy, and dancing --
Alphabet and pronunciation --
The modes of earth and sky --
A note and a chart concerning narrative modes --
Spoken and written literature --
Pandora no longer worrying --
Tonband-Kompaktkassette Music and poetry of the Kesh / Todd Barton.
From the Book - Author's expanded edition.
Pandora revisits the Kesh and comes back with new texts (Le Guin's expanded material, 2017): Dangerous people (complete novel)
Other writing related to Always coming home: May's lion
Navna: The river-running, by Intrumo of Sinshan
Essays: A non-Euclidean view of California as a cold place to be
The carrier bag theory of fiction
Text, silence, performance
The making of Always coming home
