The Compass Rose

The Compass Rose

Ursula K. Le Guin

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1982

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Locus Award 1983.

North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness... South to discover Antarctica with nine South American women... West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death... and onward to all points on and off the compass.

Twenty astonishing stories from acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin carry us to worlds of wonder and horror, desire and destiny, enchantment and doom.

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Marjeina10 / 10

“Le Guin is an ashtonishingly versatile writer, and this collection of short stories is a good illustration of her wide range. The Compass Rose mixes science fiction with fantasy, alternative history with feminism, and sometimes just knocks you over the head with a good, plain, old-fashioned fairy tale. Some of these stories don't really come within the…”

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Ursula K. Le Guin

In a literary landscape often dominated by action and conquest, Ursula K. Le Guin carved quiet, radical paths—through forests of magic, across alien planets, and into the deep folds of human nature. Her stories didn’t shout; they asked, wondered, and listened. Through them, she reimagined what science fiction and…

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