Grand Master Ursula K. LeGuin has been recognised for almost fifty years as one of the most important writers in the SF field - and is likewise feted beyond the confines of the genre. The Wind´s Twelve Quarters was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning ´The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas´, the Nebula Award-winning ´The Day Before the Revolution´, and the Hugo-nominated ´Winter´s King´, which gave readers their first glimpse of the world later made famous in her Hugo- and Nebula-winning masterpiece The Left Hand of Darkness.