The Compass Rose
For the 1983 Spanish film, see The Compass Rose (film).
First limited, signed edition | |
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Cover artist | Anne Yvonne Gilbert[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy short stories |
Publisher | Pendragon Press |
Publication date | July 1982 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 273 pp (first edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 0-06-014988-4 |
OCLC | 8109967 |
813/.54 19 | |
LC Class | PS3562.E42 C6 1982 |
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.[2]
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
- Notes
- ↑ "Yvonne Gilbert – Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
- ↑ "Locus Awards Nominee List". The Locus Index to SF Awards. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- Bibliography
- Cadden, Mike (2005). Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-99527-2.
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