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. <i>The Wind''s Twelve Quarters</i> was her first collection and it brings together some of finest short fiction, including the Hugo Award-winning <b>''The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'',</b> 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 <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i>.