Synopsis
History
First publication: Galaxy, August 1974
1974 Nebula winner for best short story.
1975 Hugo finalist for best short story.
Review
Videos
We have the story in these editions:
Galaxy: Thirty Years of Innovative Science Fiction, edited by Frederik Pohl, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, hardcover, Playboy Books, 1980-07-00
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose, trade paperback, Gollancz, 2015-08-13
The Future Is Female! Volume Two: The 1970s, edited by Lisa Yaszek, hardcover, The Library of America, 2022-09-00
All of the stories in the Hainish series:
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
The Telling
The Dowry of Angyar
Winter’s King
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
The Day Before the Revolution
The Word for World Is Forest
The Shobies’ Story
Dancing to Ganam
The Matter of Seggri
Unchosen Love
Another Story
Solitude
Coming of Age in Karhide
Mountain Ways
Rocannon’s World
Planet of Exile
City of Illusions