Surf Wiki
Save to docs
general/1982-short-story-collections

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

The Compass Rose

1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

1982 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin

FieldValue
nameThe Compass Rose
imageFile:TheCompassRose.jpg
borderyes
captionFirst limited, signed edition
authorUrsula K. Le Guin
illustratorThomas Canty (1983)
cover_artistThomas Canty (1983)
countryUnited States
languageEnglish
genreFantasy
publisherPendragon Press
release_dateJuly 1982
media_typePrint (hardcover)
pages273 (first edition, hardback)
isbn0-06-014988-4
dewey813/.54 19
congressPS3562.E42 C6 1982
oclc8109967

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.

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)

References

Sources

References

  1. "Yvonne Gilbert – Summary Bibliography".
  2. "Locus Awards Nominee List".
Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1982-short-story-collections books-illustrated-by-anne-yvonne-gilbert short-story-collections-by-ursula-k.-le-guin english-language-books fantasy-short-story-collections
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about The Compass Rose — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report