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Original title: The Rule of Names
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ A Bestiary

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Wind's Twelve Quarters, the (1975) [Collection]
      Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
     Fantastic Imagination, the (1977) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , J. R. R. Tolkien , Lloyd Alexander , C. S. Lewis , Lord Dunsany , Peter S. Beagle , John Buchan , James Branch Cabell , George MacDonald , Frank R. Stockton , Sylvia Townsend Warner , H. E. Bates , Ludwig Tieck , Alexander Grin , Mark Van Doren
     Bestiary! (1985) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Tanith Lee , Lucius Shepard , Poul Anderson , L. Sprague de Camp , Michael Swanwick , Howard Waldrop , Gene Wolfe , Esther M. Friesner , Jane Yolen , T.H. White , Manly Wade Wellman , Jack Dann , Karen Anderson , Joan Aiken , Rob Chilson , A. E. Sandeling
     Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , Ursula K. Le Guin , Charles Dickens , Ray Bradbury , Philip K. Dick , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Robert A. Heinlein , Mark Twain , Samuel R. Delany , Lord Dunsany , Michael Moorcock , Poul Anderson , L. Sprague de Camp , Fritz Leiber , Fletcher Pratt , Abraham Merritt , Theodore Sturgeon , Avram Davidson , Gene Wolfe , Wyman Guin , Joanna Russ , John Collier , Elizabeth A. Lynn , Saki , Anthony Boucher , Frank R. Stockton , William Morris , Horace Walpole , Lucy Lane Clifford , Kenneth Morris , Sara Coleridge , Margaret St. Clair , Stephen Vincent Benét , Christopher Pearce Cranch
     Ultimate Dragon, the (1995) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin , Harlan Ellison , Tanith Lee , Kevin J. Anderson , Lawrence Watt-Evans , Mike Resnick , Robert Silverberg , Lois Tilton , Jane Yolen , S.P. Somtow , Andy Lane , Chelsea Quinn Yarbro , Josepha Sherman , Nick (Nicholas A.) DiChario , Cynthia Ward , Phyllis Ann Karr , Mary A. Turzillo , Joanne Bertin , Ian Hunter , Gerald Perkins , Gordon R. Menzies
     Wizards of Odd, the (1996) [Anthology]
      Authors: Arthur C. Clarke , Douglas Adams , Stephen Donaldson , Terry Pratchett , Ursula K. Le Guin , Kurt Vonnegut , Isaac Asimov , Ray Bradbury , Philip K. Dick , H. G. Wells , Brian W. Aldiss , C. S. Lewis , Lord Dunsany , Larry Niven , Fritz Leiber , Henry Kuttner , Robert Bloch , Eric Frank Russell , Avram Davidson , John Collier , James Branch Cabell , Fredric Brown , Reginald Bretnor , F. Anstey