Title: Winter's King

Title: Winter's King Title Record # 40782
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Date: 1969-09-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Hainish
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: From Ursula K. Le Guin's introduction to this story in her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters: "Many feminists have been grieved or aggrieved by The Left Hand of Darkness because the androgynes in it are called 'he' throughout. ... In revising [Winter's King] for this edition I saw a chance to redress that injustice slightly. In this version I use the feminine pronoun for all Gethenians -- while preserving certain masculine titles such as King and Lord, just to remind one of the ambiguity. This may drive some nonfeminists mad, but that's only fair."

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Year	Title
2017	Winter's King (1969 Version)

Year	Language	Title
1972^ⓘTranslated by Wolf-Dieter Heller and/or Ute Steinbicker (it's unclear if both translated together or each different items)	German	Winterkönig
1977^ⓘTranslated by Jean Bailhache	French	Le roi de Nivôse^?Le roi de Nivose [as by Ursula Le Guin]
1980^ⓘTranslated by Gisela Stege	German	Der König von Winter
1985^ⓘTranslated by María Elena Rius	Spanish	El rey de invierno
1985^ⓘ<ul><li>Translated by Mirjana Živković </ul>	Serbian	Kralj Zime [as by Ursula Legvin]
2004^ⓘTranslated by Roberta Rambelli	Italian	Il re d'Inverno

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
5	1970 Hugo	Best Short Story

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Orbit 5	1969-09-00	ed. Damon Knight	G. P. Putnam's Sons		$4.95^?$: US dollar	222	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Paul Lehr
Orbit 5	1969-10-00	ed. Damon Knight	G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC	2007		224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Paul Lehr
Orbit 5	1969-12-00	ed. Damon Knight	Berkley Medallion	0-425-01778-8	$0.75^?$: US dollar	222	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Paul Lehr
Orbit 5	1970-11-00	ed. Damon Knight	Rapp & Whiting / Andre Deutsch	0-85391-174-6	28/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	222	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Damon Knight's Collection 6	1972-08-00	ed. Damon Knight	Fischer Taschenbuch (Fischer Orbit #12)	3-436-01577-6	DM 2.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	123	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Eddie Jones
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1975-10-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper & Row	0-06-012562-4	$8.95^?$: US dollar	[viii]+ 303	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Patricia Voehl
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1976-03-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper & Row / SFBC	1901	$2.49^?$: US dollar	246	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Patricia Voehl
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1976-10-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-02907-X	$1.75^?$: US dollar	277+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1977-02-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-02907-X	$1.75^?$: US dollar	278	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1977-09-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-02907-X	$1.75^?$: US dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Ursula Le Guin	1977-12-26	Ursula Le Guin	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5012)	2-266-00490-5		381	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	C. Broutin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1978-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper & Row	0-06-012562-4		viii+ 303	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Patricia Voehl
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume I	1978-05-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Panther / Granada	0-586-04623-2	£0.75^?£: UK pound	157	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	David Bergen
The Wind's Twelve Quarters Volume I	1979-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Panther / Granada	0-586-04622-4	£0.85^?£: UK pound	157	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Peter Elson
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1979-03-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-12842-6	$1.75^?$: US dollar	[8]+ 278+ [1]	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
Die zwölf Striche der Windrose	1980-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Nymphenburger	3-485-00391-3	DM 29.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	375+ [2]	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Maxfield Parrish
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction	1980-04-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg	Priam Books / Arbor House	0-87795-266-3	$8.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 754	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Antler & Baldwin, Inc.
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction	1980-04-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg	Arbor House	0-87795-246-9	$19.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 754	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Antler & Baldwin, Inc.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1981-03-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-20132-8	$2.25^?$: US dollar	viii+ 278	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Ursula Le Guin	1982-05-02	Ursula Le Guin	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5012)	2-266-00490-5		381	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	C. Broutin
Histoires de la fin des temps	1983-04-00	ed. Jacques Goimard, Demètre Ioakimidis^?Demetre Ioakimidis , Gérard Klein^?Gerard Klein	Le Livre de Poche (La grande anthologie de la science-fiction #3777)	2-253-02580-1		445	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Cl. Gozlan
Die zwölf Striche der Windrose	1983-10-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #25)	3-453-30964-2	DM 7.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	334	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Karel Thole
Najbolje svetske SF priče 1985^?Najbolje svetske SF price 1985 Najbolje svetske SF priche 1985	1985-00-00	ed. Zoran Živković^?Zoran Zivkovic	Prosveta (Kentaur)			273	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Željko Pahek^?Zeljko Pahek
Las doce moradas del viento	1985-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Edhasa (Nebulae (2ª época) #68)	84-350-2068-1		206	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Julio Vivas
Las doce moradas del viento I	1986-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Edhasa (Nebulae (2ª época) #68)	84-350-2068-1		206	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Julio Vivas
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1987-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper & Row	0-06-091434-3	$10.00^?$: US dollar		tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1987-09-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Perennial Library / Harper & Row	0-06-091434-3	$6.95^?$: US dollar	303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century	1987-11-00	ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Robert Silverberg	Avenel Books	0-517-64124-0	$8.98^?$: US dollar	x+ 726	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Romas
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1989-11-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	VGSF / Gollancz (VGSF Classics #37)	0-575-04607-4	£3.99^?£: UK pound	xiv+ 303	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Brian Waugh
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1991-00-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Perennial Library / Harper & Row	0-06-091434-3	$10.00^?$: US dollar	303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Hainske priče^?Hainske price Hainske priche	1991-00-00	Ursula Legvin	Polaris Beograd (SF biblioteka Polaris)			209	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Chris Foss
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	1991-04-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	HarperPaperbacks	0-06-100162-7	$4.50^?$: US dollar	383	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Danilo Ducak
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow	1994-11-00	ed. Forrest J. Ackerman, Janrae Frank, Jean Marie Stine	Longmeadow Press	0-681-00525-4	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xvii+ 427	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Laura Freas
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	2000-10-00	Ursula Le Guin	Gollancz (SF Collectors' Editions)	0-575-07139-7	£9.99^?£: UK pound	xiv+ 303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
I dodici punti cardinali	2004-02-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Editrice Nord (Narrativa Nord #183)	88-429-1298-0	€16.00^?€: Euro	294	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	2004-12-00	Ursula K. Le Guin	Perennial / HarperCollins	0-06-091434-3	$13.95^?$: US dollar	303	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	2009-04-09	Ursula K. Le Guin	Paw Prints	978-1-4395-6236-9	$22.95^?$: US dollar		hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose	2015-08-13	Ursula K. Le Guin	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-0576-5	£9.99^?£: UK pound	xx+ 561	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Christopher Gibbs
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	2015-08-27	Ursula K. Le Guin	Gateway / Orion	978-1-4732-1436-1	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	2017-02-14	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-247103-1	$9.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Winter's King	2017-02-14	Ursula K. Le Guin	Harper Perennial	978-0-06-247099-7	$1.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
Hainish Novels & Stories, Volume One	2017-09-05	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Library of America (The Library of America #296)	978-1-59853-538-9	$40.00^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 1095	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Hainish Novels & Stories	2017-09-05	Ursula K. Le Guin	The Library of America	978-1-59853-537-2	$80.00^?$: US dollar	xviii+ 1095, xix+ 789	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni
The Wind's Twelve Quarters	date unknown	Ursula K. Le Guin	Bantam Books	0-553-23541-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	277	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Pauline Ellison
Étoiles des profondeurs	date unknown	Ursula Le Guin	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5012)	2-266-04519-9		386	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	W. Siudmak

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