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The Compass Rose

1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Compass Rose
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The Compass Rose is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies.

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It won the Locus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983.[2]

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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

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

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