There's more than one north by which to guide a world.

The survivor of a space raid colonizes a new world with the aid of a compass rose.

Yoon Ha Lee (Official Site, Twitter) is the author of Conservation of Shadows (short story collection) and Winterstrike (StoryNexus). He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.

Peter Berman is a mathematician and business analyst living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.