The Wind's Twelve Quarters

The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Seventeen Stories of Fantastic Adventure (1975) is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Contents

Note: Original publication dates and attributions are in parentheses.

• Semley's Necklace (1964, Amazing, as "Dowry of the Angyar")
• April in Paris (1962, Fantastic)
• The Masters (1963, Fantastic)
• Darkness Box (1963, Fantastic)
• The Word of Unbinding (1964, Fantastic)
• The Rule of Names (1964, Fantastic)
• Winter's King (1969, Orbit 5)
• The Good Trip (1970, Fantastic)
• Nine Lives (1969, Playboy)
• Things (1970, Orbit 6, as "The End")
• A Trip to the Head (1970, Quark 1)
• Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971, New Dimensions 1)
• The Stars Below (1974, Orbit 14)
• The Field of Vision (1973, Galaxy, as "Field of Vision")
• Direction of the Road (1973, Orbit 12)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973, New Dimensions 3)(subtitle: Variations on a Theme by William James)
• The Day Before the Revolution (1974, Galaxy)

Editions

• 1975: Harper & Row hardcover
• 1976: Bantam
• 1985: Las Doce Morada's Del Viento (Spanish) Edhasa, ISBN 8435020681
• 1991 April: First Haper Paperbacks printing
• 1995 Jan.: HarperPrism (ISBN 0-06-105605-7) (cover illustration by Danilo Ducak)