THE COMPASS ROSE

Panther/Granada paperback, 1984. Cover illustration by Peter Goodfellow.

Back cover fluff: 

"From dream worlds to nightmare planets, from the boundaries of madness to the six points of Ursula Le Guin's three dimensional compass, these stories are a mind-shaking reminder of the uniqueness of Le Guin's unsettling visions." 

This is a short story collection, and contains the following stories: The Author of the Acacia Seeds, The New Atlantis, Schrodinger's Cat, Two Delays on the Northern Line, SQ, Small Change, The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb, The Diary of the Rose, The White Donkey, The Phoenix, Intracom, The Eye Altering, Mazes, The Pathways of Desire, Gwilan's Harp, Malheur County, The Water Is Wide, The Wife's Story, Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time and Sur.

THE EYE OF THE HERON

Panther SF paperback, 1980. Cover illustration by Peter Elson.

"THREE KINDS OF CREATURE CAME FROM EARTH TO VICTORIA: MEN, LICE AND SHANTY-TOWNERS 

These are the words of Falco, leader of the City people. They were the first to come to the penal colony of Victoria, sent away from the cities of Brasil-America in one-way space-ships. When the People of Peace were sent there from Can-America, sixty years later, they found the city had been built, and they were not welcome. They had to live in Shantih and the City people called them vermin. 

But now Falco faces a double threat: the growing restlessness of the pacifist Shanty-Towners and the growing consciousness of his daughter, Luz, in a male-dominated society. 

A new world, a frightening crisis of future history, an intense drama of human relationships, The Eye of the Heron is Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin at her best.

Contents:

No One Said Forever by Cynthia Felice

The Song Of N'Sardi-El by Diana L. Paxson

Jubilee's Story by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Mab Gallen Recalled by Cherry Wilder

Phoenix In The Ashes by Joan D. Vinge

The Eye Of The Heron by Ursula K. Le Guin.

THRESHOLD

Granada paperback, 1982. Illustration by Richard Clifton-Dey.

"It was the threshold place. Far away from suburbs, supermarkets, freeways. It was a calm and soothing place. A forest place where time stood still. He liked to drink the fresh clear water there, and feel new strength flow through his body. It was his place. But Hugh was not alone there. First he heard one voice. Then many. Soon he would discover a fabled city, where the people waited for one who would serve a strange quest. They waited for him..."

THE LATHE OF HEAVEN

Panther SF paperback, 1980 reprint. Cover artwork by Colin Hay.

"Before George Orr slips into a dreaming sleep induced by Doctor Halber, there are 7 billion undernourished people on an overcrowded Earth. Dream of space, of elbow room, of freedom, the doctor says... 

The sleeper dreams of burying mounds of corpses...When he wakes he "remembers" there had been a plague. Pollution-caused cancer had wiped out 6 billion people - ten years ago. 

Doctor Halber is pleased with his day's work of playing God. Tomorrow, the race question..."