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