The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

Ursula K. Le Guin

HarperCollins, Sep 9, 1987 - Fiction - 320 pages

The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future.

Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.

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Review: The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Hainish Cycle)

User Review  - Maria Longley - Goodreads

This is a retrospective of early short stories pulled together with a small, informative introduction to each story. The three stories which have really stuck with me on previous readings are ...

Review: The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Hainish Cycle)

User Review  - Ron - Goodreads

Jo Walton's Among Others makes references to this book and since I'd read other Le Guin novels, I thought I'd give this a try. It is a collection of short stories. Most of them are early in her career ...

Contents

• April in Parts: 25
• The Masters: 40
• Darkness Box: 60
• The Rule of Names: 80
• Winters King: 93
• The Good Trip: 118
• Things: 161
• Vaster than Empires and More Slow: 181
• The Stars Below: 218
• The Field of Vision: 242
• Direction of the Road: 267
• The Day Before the Revolution: 285

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than one hundred short stories, two collections of essays, four volumes of poetry, and nineteen novels. Her best-known fantasy works, the Earthsea books, have sold millions of copies in America and England, and have been translated into sixteen languages. Her first major work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, is considered epochmaking in the field because of its radical investigation of gender roles and its moral and literary complexity.

Three of Le Guin's books have been finalists for the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and among the many honors her writing has received are the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Harold D. Vursell Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories; Perennial Library
• Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
• Edition: reprint, reissue
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 1987
• ISBN: 0060914343, 9780060914349
• Length: 320 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General