Download or read book The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind's Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', the Nebula Award-winning 'The Day Before the Revolution', and the Hugo-nominated 'Winter's King', which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.