The Compass Rose

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name = The Compass Rose
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author = Ursula K. Le Guin
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Harper & Row
release_date = July 1982
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 273 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0060149884 (first edition, hardback)
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"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.

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")