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Direction of the Road

Ursula K. Le Guin

First published July 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

A tree spends a lot of time looking right to the people who pass by: First tiny, then big, and then tiny again.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
July 1973 Cover Orbit 12 G. P. Putnam's Sons Anthology 31
October 1973 Cover Orbit 12 G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC Anthology 21
March 1974 Cover Orbit 12 Berkley Medallion Anthology 30
March 1974 Cover Orbit 12 Berkley Medallion Anthology 30
1976 Cover The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Alternate World Recordings Collection |3
March 1976 Cover The Wind's Twelve Quarters Harper & Row / SFBC Collection 218
May 1978 Cover The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Panther / Granada Collection 105
1980 Cover The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume II Granada Collection 105
September 1987 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Capra Press Collection 84
September 1988 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume / New American Library Collection 84
March 1990 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Gollancz Collection 84
October 1990 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 99
1991 The Wind's Twelve Quarters Perennial Library / Harper & Row Collection 267
1991 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 99
June 1994 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Plume Collection 84
December 1994 Cover Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences Roc / New American Library Collection 84
May 2000 Cover Holt Anthology of Science Fiction Holt, Rinehart and Winston Anthology 234
November 2012 Cover Where on Earth Small Beer Press Collection 107
November 2012 Cover Where on Earth Small Beer Press Collection
January 2014 Cover Where on Earth Recorded Books Collection |107
May 2014 Cover Where on Earth Gollancz Collection 107
October 2014 Cover Where on Earth Gollancz Collection 107
August 2015 Cover The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 247
October 2016 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus 127
October 2016 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2016 Cover The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
February 2017 Cover Direction of the Road Harper Perennial Chapbook
November 2017 Cover The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus
November 2017 Cover The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Saga Press Omnibus