The Wind's Twelve Quarters Author:Ursula K. LeGuin In The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin has put together a superb retrospective collection of her own best short fiction. There are seventeen stories, each with a brief introduction by the author setting it in perspective. The stories rante widely grom fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future, but ... more »all of them concerned with human values, relationships, and survival under all kinds of stress and turmoil.« less