• Preface

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"

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"
• "Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time" (1979, Omni, as "Where Does the Time Go?")
• "Sur" (1982, The New Yorker)

• Cadden, Mike (2005). Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-99527-2.