The Compass Rose

First limited, signed edition
Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
Illustrator	Thomas Canty (1983)
Cover artist	Thomas Canty (1983)[1]
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Pendragon Press
Publication date	July 1982
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	273 (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 ofshort stories by American writerUrsula K. Le Guin, and illustrated byAnne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictlycompass-related as the title implies.

It won theLocus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983.^[2]

• 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)

• 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.

• 1982 short story collections
• Books illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert
• Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Fantasy short story collections

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