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Vaster Than Empires and More Slow

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published 1971
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette
Series Hainish

Synopsis

A ten-person crew travels to a planet far away from Earth and untouched by Hainish life. The first evaluation shows trees and grass, but no animals. One person has a highly developed empathy. As the rest don't like him, he mirrors this back to them. He can't feel animal life on this planet, but somehow there's still a lot of fear.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1972 Hugo Award Best Short Story Runner-up
1972 Locus Poll Award Best Short Fiction Nominee/Finalist

Publications (60)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1971 New Dimensions 1: Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories Doubleday Anthology 87
July 1972 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Ballantine Books Anthology 245
July 1972 The Best Science Fiction of the Year Ballantine Books Anthology 245
August 1973 New Dimensions 1: Fourteen Original Science Fiction Stories Avon Anthology 99
February 1974 Wondermakers 2 Fawcett Premier Anthology 266
January 1975 Women of Wonder Vintage Books Anthology 171
April 1975 Explorers of Space Thomas Nelson Anthology 187
October 1975 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 181
1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 181
March 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row / SFBC Collection 148
April 1976 The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1 Ballantine Books Anthology 245
October 1976 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 166
February 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 166
September 1977 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 166
1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection 181
May 1978 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Panther / Granada Collection 25
July 1978 Women of Wonder Penguin Books Anthology 191
March 1979 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 166
1980 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Granada Collection 25
March 1981 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Bantam Books Collection 167
May 1983 Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology 494
May 1983 Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology Oxford University Press Anthology 494
1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row Collection
September 1987 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Capra Press Collection 92
September 1987 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection
September 1988 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume / New American Library Collection 92
November 1989 The Wind's Twelve Quarters VGSF / Gollancz Collection 181
March 1990 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Gollancz Collection 92
October 1990 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 109
1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection 181
1991 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 109
April 1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperPaperbacks Collection 229
June 1994 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume Collection 92
December 1994 Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 92
April 2000 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 198
May 2000 Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and the Furthest Horizon Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 192
October 2000 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gollancz Collection 181
August 2002 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons Anthology 198
2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
December 2004 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial / HarperCollins Collection
December 2008 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 96
April 2009 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Paw Prints Collection
October 2013 What If? Volume 3 Surinam Turtle Press Anthology 185
2015 Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press Anthology 83
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 167
August 2015 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Gateway / Orion Collection
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology 577
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime / Black Lizard / Vintage Books Anthology |56
July 2016 The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection Vintage Crime/Black Lizard / SFBC Anthology 577
October 2016 The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Collection 1
October 2016 The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Collection
November 2016 The Found and the Lost Recorded Books Collection |1
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
February 2017 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow Harper Perennial Chapbook
February 2017 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection
September 2017 Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One The Library of America Omnibus 944
September 2017 The Hainish Novels & Stories The Library of America Omnibus 944|9
November 2017 The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Collection
October 2021 The Wind's Twelve Quarters HarperAudio Collection |181
September 2022 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper Perennial Collection 181