What is The Wind's Twelve Quarters?
Q: What is The Wind's Twelve Quarters?
A: The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
Q: Where did the title of the book come from?
A: The title of the book is from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.
Q: When was the book published?
A: Harper & Row published the book in 1975.
Q: What did Ursula K. Le Guin say about the book?
A: Ursula K. Le Guin called it a look back at her start as a writer.
Q: How many stories does the book have?
A: The book has 17 stories that had already been published.
Q: Which stories in the book were first ideas for novels she wrote later?
A: "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" was the beginning of Earthsea, "Semley's Necklace" was the start of the novel Rocannon's World, and "Winter's King" is about people living on the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness.
Q: Which story in the book won the Hugo Award in 1974?
A: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the Hugo Award in 1974.
