The wind's twelve quarters : short stories

1 • Semley's Necklace • [Hainish] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of The Dowry of Angyar) 23 • April in Paris • (1962) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 37 • The Masters • (1963) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 55 • Darkness Box • (1963) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 65 • The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 73 • The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 85 • Winter's King • [Hainish] • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 109 • The Good Trip • (1970) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 119 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 148 • Things • (1970) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 159 • A Trip to the Head • (1970) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 166 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • [Hainish] • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin 200 • The Stars Below • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 222 • The Field of Vision • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 244 • The Direction of the Road • (1975) • short fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of Direction of the Road 1973) 251 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin 260 • The Day Before the Revolution • [Hainish] • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin Wizardry, transforming its master into a cloud of fine mist...cloning, duplicating the ideal man ten times over...Utopia, in a city where almost everyone is perfectly happy... Ursula Le Guin, author of The Earthsea Trilogy , has a special way of blending stirring adventure with fantasy that has made comparison with such masters as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien inevitable. Now, in The Wind's Twelve Quarters , seventeen of her favorite stories reaffirm Ursula Le Guin as one of America's outstanding writers. CONTENTS: Foreword Semley's Necklace April in Paris The Masters Darkness Box The Word of Unbinding The Rule of Names Winter's King The Good Trip Nine Lives Things A Trip to the Head Vaster than Empires and More Slow The Stars Below The Field of Vision Direction of the Road The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas The Day Before the Revolution This is a collection containing, among other stories, the short story that started the Earthsea series." Along with "The Rule of Names," the story establishes the world and characters of Earthsea. First published in 1964 in an issue of Fantastic, the story can be found in a handful of anthologies but can be hard to lay hands on.