The Compass Rose

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THE COMPASS ROSE

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Harper & Row edition published July 1982

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Copyright © 1982 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Cover art copyright © 1983 by Yvonne Gilbert.

COPYRIGHT NOTICES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The copyright notices are listed below and on page v, which constitutes an extension of this copyright page.

Acknowledgment is made of points of first publication:

“The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguisties” first appeared in Fellowship of the Stars, edited by Terry Carr (Simon & Schuster); copyright © 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The New Atlantis” first appeared in The New Atlantis, edited by Robert Silverberg (Hawthorn); copyright © 1975 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Schrodinger’s Cat” first appeared in Universe 5, edited by Terry Carr (Random House); copyright © 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Two Delays on the Northern Line” first appeared in The New Yorker, copyright © 1979 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“SQ” first appeared in Cassandra Rising, edited by Alice Laurance (Doubleday); copyright © 1978 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Small Change” first appeared in Tor zu den Stemen, edited by Peter Wilfert (Goldmann Verlag); copyright © 1981 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb” first appeared in Antaeus, copyright © 1978 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Diary of the Rose” first appeared in Future Power, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann (Random House); copyright © 1976 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The White Donkey” first appeared in TriQuarterly, copyright © 1980 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Phoenix” appears for the first time in this volume.

“Intracom” first appeared in Stopwatch, edited by George Hay (New English Library); copyright © 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Eye Altering” first appeared in The Altered 1, edited by Lee Harding (Norstrilia Press); copyright © 1976 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Mazes” first appeared in Epoch, edited by Roger Elwood A Robert Silverberg (Berkley Publishing Corporation); copyright © 1975 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Pathways of Desire” first appeared in New Dimensions 9 edited by Robert Silverberg (Harper & Row); copyright © 1979 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Gwilan’s Harp” first appeared in Redbook; copyright © 1977 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Malheur County” first appeared in Kenyon Review, copyright © 1979 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Water Is Wide” first appeared as a chapbook published by Pendragon Press, copyright © 1976 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“The Wife’s Story” appears for the first time in this volume, but was written for the anthology, Changes, edited by Michael Bishop and Ian Watson; their forebearance is much appreciated by the author.

“Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time” first appeared in abridged form under the title “Where Does the Time Go?” in Omni, copyright © 1979 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

“Sur” first appeared in The New Yorker, copyright © 1982 by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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