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5/5 Barnes & Noble Media type Print ISBN 0-06-012562-4 LC Class PZ4.L518 Wi PS3562.E42 Country United States of America | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 303 Dewey Decimal 813/.5/4 Originally published 1975 Page count 303 OCLC 1366086 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction Similar Ursula K Le Guin books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The wind s twelve quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" gave Le Guin the place that was to become Earthsea; "Semley's Necklace," was first published as "Dowry of the Angyar" in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel Rocannon's World in 1966; "Winter's King" is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels. The story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the Hugo Award in 1974, while "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975.