The Compass Rose

The Compass Rose
1st limited, signed edition
Author(s)	Ursula K. Le Guin
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	Pendragon Press
Publication date	July 1982
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	273 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0060149884 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC Number	8109967
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Classification	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.

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

Notes

Bibliography

• Cadden, Mike (2005). Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0415995272.