The Compass Rose

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The Compass Rose
Author Ursula K. Le Guin
Original title The Compass Rose
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy short stories
Publisher Harper & Row
Publication date July 1982
Media type Print (Hardcover)
Pages 273 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0060149884 (first edition, hardback)

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.

[edit] 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)
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Works by Ursula K. Le Guin - (bibliography)
Listed in order written with publication date in parentheses.
Earthsea
"The Word of Unbinding" (1964) · "The Finder" (2001) · "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) · "The Rule of Names" (1964) · "The Bones of the Earth" (2001) · A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) · The Tombs of Atuan (1971) · "On the High Marsh" (2001) · The Farthest Shore (1972) · Tehanu (1990) · "Dragonfly" (1997) · Tales from Earthsea (coll 2001) · The Other Wind (2001)
Hainish Cycle
"Dowry of the Angyar" (1964) · Rocannon's World (1964) · Planet of Exile (1966) · City of Illusions (1967) · The Left Hand of Darkness (1967) · "Winter's King" (1969) · "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971) · The Dispossessed (1974) · "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) · The Word for World is Forest (1976) · "The Shobies' Story" (1990) · "Dancing to Ganam" (1993) · "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994) · "The Matter of Seggri" (1994) · "Unchosen Love" (1994) · "Solitude" (1994) · Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) · "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995) • "Mountain Ways" (1996) · "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999) · The Telling (2000)
Other fiction
(novels bold)
The Lathe of Heaven (1971) · The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) · Orsinian Tales (1976) · The Eye of the Heron (1978) · Malafrena (1979) · The Beginning Place (1980) · The Compass Rose (1982) · Always Coming Home (1985) · Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) · Searoad (1991) · A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1991) · Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) · The Birthday of the World (2002) · Changing Planes (2003)
Nonfiction
The Language of the Night (1979) · Dancing at the Edge of the World (1982) · "Revisioning Earthsea" (1992 published lecture) · Steering the Craft (1998) · The Wave in the Mind (2004)
Languages