The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin first published by Harper & Row in 1975. Contents:
- "Forward"
- "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"
Le Guin describes the collection as a retrospective. It includes many stories which had been published previously or expanded into novels. Others take place on planets for which she later or previously wrote full-length novels. Semley's Necklace became the prologue to Rocannon's World. The Word of Unbinding and The Rule of Names both take place in Earthsea. Winter's King takes place on Gethen, the same planet which is the stage of The Left Hand of Darkness. The Day Before the Revolution is a companion to The Dispossessed. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1973. The Day Before the Revolution won the Nebula Award in the same category in 1974.
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Listed in order written with publication date in parentheses.
"The Word of Unbinding" (1964) • "The Finder" (2001) • "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) • "The Rule of Names" (1964) • "The Bones of the Earth" (2001) • A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) • The Tombs of Atuan (1971) • "On the High Marsh" (2001) • The Farthest Shore (1972) • Tehanu (1990) • "Dragonfly" (1997) • Tales from Earthsea (coll 2001) •The Other Wind (2001) |
| Hainish Cycle | "Dowry of the Angyar" (1964) • Rocannon's World (1964) • Planet of Exile (1966) • City of Illusions (1967) • The Left Hand of Darkness (1967) • "Winter's King" (1969) • "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971) • The Dispossessed (1974) • "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) • The Word for World is Forest (1976) • "The Shobies' Story" (1990) • "Dancing to Ganam" (1993) • "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994) • "The Matter of Seggri" (1994) • "Unchosen Love" (1994) • "Solitude" (1994) • Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) • "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995) • "Mountain Ways" (1996) • "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999) • The Telling (2000) |
| Other fiction
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The Lathe of Heaven (1971) • The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) • Orsinian Tales (1976) • The Eye of the Heron (1978) • Malafrena (1979) • The Beginning Place (1980) • The Compass Rose (1982) • Always Coming Home (1985) • Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) • Searoad (1991) • A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1991) • Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) • The Birthday of the World (2002) • Changing Planes (2003) |
| Nonfiction | The Language of the Night (1979) • Dancing at the Edge of the World (1982) • Revisioning Earthsea (1992) • Steering the Craft (1998) • The Wave in the Mind (2004) |
