The Wind’s Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose – Ursula K. Le Guin

Description

Grand Master Ursula K. Le Guin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field – and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind’s Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, the Nebula Award-winning The Day Before the Revolution, and the Hugo-nominated Winter’s King, which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.

Contents:

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters • (1975) • collection
The Compass Rose • (1982) • collection
A Trip to the Head • (1970) • shortstory
April in Paris • (1962) • shortstory
Darkness Box • (1963) • shortstory
Direction of the Road • (1973) • shortstory
Foreword (The Wind’s Twelve Quarters) • (1975) • essay
Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette
Semley’s Necklace • [Hainish] • (1964) • shortstory
The Day Before the Revolution • [Hainish] • (1974) • shortstory
The Field of Vision • (1973) • shortstory
The Good Trip • (1970) • shortstory
The Masters • (1963) • shortstory
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • shortstory
The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • shortstory
The Stars Below • (1974) • shortstory
The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • shortstory
Things • (1970) • shortstory
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • (1971) • novelette by
Winter’s King • (1969) • novelette
Gwilan’s Harp • (1977) • shortstory
Intracom • (1974) • shortstory
Malheur County • (1979) • shortstory
Mazes • (1975) • shortstory
Preface (The Compass Rose) • (1982) • essay
Schrödinger’s Cat • (1974) • shortstory
Small Change • (1981) • shortstory
Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time • (1979) • shortstory
SQ • (1978) • shortstory
Sur • (1982) • shortstory
The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics • (1974) • shortstory
The Diary of the Rose • [Orsinia] • (1976) • novelette
The Eye Altering • (1976) • shortstory
The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb • (1978) • shortstory
The New Atlantis • (1975) • novelette
The Pathways of Desire • (1979) • novelette
The Phoenix • (1982) • shortstory
The Water Is Wide • (1976) • shortstory
The White Donkey • (1980) • shortstory
The Wife’s Story • (1982) • shortstory
Two Delays on the Northern Line • [Orsinia] • (1979) • shortstory