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The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
is a collection of short stories by
Ursula K. Le Guin
, named after a line from
A.E. Housman
's
A Shropshire Lad
and first published by
Harper & Row
in 1975. Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: "
The Word of Unbinding
" and "
The Rule of Names
" gave Le Guin the place that was to become
Earthsea
; "Semley's Necklace," was first published as "Dowry of the Angyar" in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel
Rocannon's World
in 1966; "
Winter's King
" is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel
The Left Hand of Darkness
. Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels. The story "
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
" won the
Hugo Award
in 1974, while "
The Day Before the Revolution
" won the
Locus
and
Nebula
Awards in 1975.
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