The Compass Rose

The Compass Rose

First limited, signed edition
Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Dewey Decimal	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)

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