The Compass Rose
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
Nadir
- "'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics"
- "The New Atlantis"
- "Schrödinger's Cat"
North
- "Two Delays on the Northern Line"
- "SQ"
- "Small Change"
East
- "The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb"
- "The Diary of the Rose"
- "The White Donkey"
- "The Phoenix"
Zenith
- "Intracom"
- "The Eye Altering"
- "Mazes"
- "The Pathways of Desire"
West
- "Gwilan's Harp"
- "Malheur Count"
- "The Water Is Wide"
South
- "The Wife's Story"
- "Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time"
- "Sur"
