The Wind's Twelve Quarters
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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name = The Wind's Twelve Quarters
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author = Ursula K. Le Guin
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language = English
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genre = Science Fiction
publisher = Harper and Row
pub_date = 1975
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pages = 303
isbn = ISBN 0060125624
oclc = 1366086
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"The Wind's Twelve Quarters" is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin first published by Harper & Row in 1975.
Contents:
*"Foreword"
*"Semley's Necklace"
*"April in Paris"
*"The Masters"
*"Darkness Box"
*"The Word of Unbinding"
*"The Rule of Names"
*"Winter's King"
*"The Good Trip"
*"Nine Lives"
*"Things"
*"A Trip to the Head"
*"Vaster than Empires and More Slow"
*"The Stars Below"
*"The Field of Vision"
*"Direction of the Road"
*"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
*"The Day Before the Revolution"
Le Guin describes the collection as a retrospective. It includes many stories which had been published previously or expanded into novels. Others take place in locations that feature in her full-length novels. "Semley's Necklace" became the prologue to "Rocannon's World". "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" both take place in Earthsea. "Winter's King" takes place on Gethen, the same planet which is the stage of "The Left Hand of Darkness". "The Day Before the Revolution" is a companion to "The Dispossessed".
"The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1973. "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Nebula Award in the same category in 1974.
External links
* [http://inkscrawl.blogspot.com/2006/08/book-review-winds-twelve-quarters-by.html A review of The Wind's Twelve Quarters]
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