From dream worlds to nightmare planets, from the boundaries of madness to the six points of Ursula K. Le Guin's three dimensional compass, these stories are a mind-shaking reminder of the uniqueness of Le Guin's unsettling visions.

Contents:
- Preface (1982)
Nadir
- 'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974, Fellowship of the Stars)
- The New Atlantis (1975, The New Atlantis)
- Schrödinger's Cat (1974, Universe 5)
North
- Two Delays on the Northern Line (1979, The New Yorker)
- SQ (1978, Cassandra Rising)
- Small Change (1981, Tor zu den Sternen)
East
- The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb (1978, Antaeus)
- The Diary of the Rose (1976, Future Power)
- The White Donkey (1980, TriQuarterly)
- The Phoenix (1982)
Zenith
- Intracom (1974, Stopwatch)
- The Eye Altering (1974, The Altered I)
- Mazes (1975, Epoch)
- The Pathways of Desire (1979, New Dimensions Science Fiction, No.9)
West
- Gwilan's Harp (1977, Redbook)
- Malheur County (1979, Kenyon Review)
- The Water Is Wide (1976, Pendragon Press (chapbook))
South
- The Wife's Story (1982)
- Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time (1979, Omni as Where Does the Time Go?)
- Sur (1982, The New Yorker)

Cover illustration by Peter Goodfellow