The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories [Hardcover]

Ursula K Le Guin (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 303 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060125624
• ISBN-13: 978-0060125622
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #853,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The wind's twelve quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin, December 5, 2001

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Shevek (QLD, OZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories (Hardcover)

An excellent collection of short stories from this master (mistress?) of Science Fiction and Fantasy literature.

Ursula is a cut above the rest in terms of intellectual involvement, poses moral and spiritual questions, always tells a ripping good yarn.

Fans of The Dispossessed will be entranced by the story of Odo - founder of the Odonian movement which led to settling of the moon Anarres by the anarchists.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Ones That Walk Away From Omelas, February 19, 2011

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This review is from: The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories (Hardcover)

I have owned this book for years and lost it in a fire in '96. All the stories are powerful, but "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" had/has an incredible impact on my life and how I view the moral/ethical world around me. Kudos again and again to this incredibly insightful woman for her voice and this story.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection of short stories, May 28, 2004

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bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The wind's twelve quarters: Short stories (Hardcover)

I bought this book for the first story "Semley's Necklace" however; all of them will surpass your expectations. Ursula has a unique way with words that rival her tales.
The Winds Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin (Harper & Row, 1975, hc)
Foreword
Semley's Necklace ["The Dowry of Angyar"] - ss Amazing Sep '64
April in Paris - ss Fantastic Sep '62
The Masters - ss Fantastic Feb '63
Darkness Box - ss Fantastic Nov '63
The Word of Unbinding - ss Fantastic Jan '64
The Rule of Names - ss Fantastic Apr '64
Winter's King - nv Orbit 5, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1969
The Good Trip - ss Fantastic Aug '70
Nine Lives - nv Playboy Nov '69
Things ["The End"] - ss Orbit 6, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1970
A Trip to the Head - ss Quark #1, ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1970
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - nv New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971
The Stars Below - ss Orbit 14, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1974
The Field of Vision - ss Galaxy Oct '73
Direction of the Road - ss Orbit 12, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam's, 1973
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
The Day Before the Revolution - ss Galaxy Aug '74
A little about Ursula:
Legal Name: Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber
Birthplace: Berkeley, California, USA
Birthdate: 21 October 1929

Received Nebula Awards for the novels "The Left Hand of Darkness," "The Dispossessed," and "Tehanu"; for the novella "Solitude"; and for the short story "The Day Before the Revolution."