The Wind's Twelve Quarters / The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin
A pair of short-story collections offering a wide-ranging sweep of speculative fiction—from fables and myths to science-fictional thought experiments—that probes identity, culture, language, power, and moral choice. Set in imagined archipelagos, alien worlds, and near futures, the stories use lyrical, observational prose and anthropological insight to examine the costs of social order, the burdens of revolution, the strangeness of domestic life when seen through nonhuman eyes, and the quiet, sometimes unsettling consequences of desire, exile, and storytelling.
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