description: North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness... South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile... West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death... and onward to all points on and off the compass.- 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)
language: English
title: Compass Rose
titlecomplete: Compass Rose
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Short Story Collection, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Anthologies, American
ratings_count: 2266
series: Orsinia
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Collection
publisher: Random House Value Publishing