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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

OCLC
  
8109967

Author
  
Ursula K. Le Guin

Cover artist
  
Anne Yvonne Gilbert

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Publication date
  
July 1982

ISBN
  
0-06-014988-4

Originally published
  
July 1982

Publisher
  
Pendragon Press

Country
  
United States of America

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Pages
  
273 pp (first edition, hardback)

Genres
  
Short story, Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Ursula K Le Guin books, Fantasy books

The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies.

It won the Locus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983.

Contents

  • Preface

    • Nadir

  • "'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" (1974, Fellowship of the Stars)
  • "The New Atlantis" (1975, The New Atlantis)
  • "Schrödinger's Cat" (1974, Universe 5)

    • North

  • "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979, The New Yorker)
  • "SQ" (1978, Cassandra Rising)
  • "Small Change" (1981, Tor zu den Sternen)

    • East

  • "The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1978, Antaeus)
  • "The Diary of the Rose" (1976, Future Power)
  • "The White Donkey" (1980, TriQuarterly)
  • "The Phoenix"

    • Zenith

  • "Intracom" (1974, Stopwatch)
  • "The Eye Altering" (1974, The Altered I)
  • "Mazes" (1975, Epoch)
  • "The Pathways of Desire" (1979, New Dimensions Science Fiction, No. 9)

    • West

  • "Gwilan's Harp" (1977, Redbook)
  • "Malheur County" (1979, Kenyon Review)
  • "The Water Is Wide" (1976, Pendragon Press (chapbook))

    • South

  • "The Wife's Story"
  • "Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time" (1979, Omni, as "Where Does the Time Go?")
  • "Sur" (1982, The New Yorker)

    • References

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