"The Shobies' Story" is a 1990 science fiction novella by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, describing the story of the first human crew to participate in a newly invented faster-than-light mode of space travel. It was first published in the anthology Universe and subsequently appeared in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea published by Harper Prism in 1994. "The Shobies' Story" was nominated for a Nebula Award in the novelette category in 1991.