The Compass Rose

German edition, Die Kompassrose, Heyne 1985

The Compass Rose (1982) is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Contents

Note: Original publication dates and attributions are in parentheses.

• 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)

Editions

• 1982: Limited first edition copublished with Pendragon Press & Underwood-Miller
• 1982 July: Harper & Row edition
• 1982 Oct/Nov: Featured Alternate of Doubleday Book Club; Selection of Science Fiction Book Club
• 1983 July: Bantam paperback edition, ISBN 0-553-23512-5 (cover art, Yvonne Gilbert, © 1983)