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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ContentsEdit

  • 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

East

Zenith

West

  • "Gwilan's Harp" (1977, Redbook)
  • "Malheur County" (1979, Kenyon Review)
  • "The Water Is Wide" (1976, Pendragon Press (chapbook))

South

ReferencesEdit

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SourcesEdit

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