A Fisherman of the Inland Sea is a 1994 collection of short stories and novellas by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin.

The stand-alone story is set in present-day Australia, and depicts an arrogant but stupid American man and his downtrodden wife.

This strongly feminist story has the couple make contact with aliens who the husband mistakes for Australian Aboriginals.

In a postcataclysmic earth, society is rebuilt on an orbiting space station in the form of a new Utopia ruled by an elect group of scientists who have established reason as the guiding principle.

"The Shobies' Story" is set in Le Guin's Hainish universe, and follows the protagonists of the first successful jump to a planet using Churten theory.

Two humans (Shan and Tai) from a far future Earth, have arrived on the fictional planet Hain, heroes due to their being crew members of the first faster-than-light space flight, depicted in "The Shobies' Story".

"Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" was written by Le Guin in 1994, and is also set in the Hainish universe.