The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Locus Award 1976.

Seventeen spellbinding tales from the superb weaver of fantasy, Ursula Le Guin. The creatures of her unqiue genius travel in and out of time; doing battle in worlds that glitter with the blue glint of medieval armor; skulking in the gray dust of a dead planet's lava; and lurking behind trees whose trunks are warmed by a dragon's smoky breath... in a collection that represents the cream of Le Guin's remarkable imagination.