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For the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guins Hainish novels and stories are brought together in a single edition, complete and with new introductions by the author. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, these remarkable works redrew the map of modern science fiction. In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Le Guin imagined a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hainan array of worlds whose divergent societies were the result of both evolution and genetic engineering. Le Guin first conceived her League of All Worlds in three early novels of daring inventiveness. In Rocannons World (1966), Hainish scientist Gaverel Rocannon ventures to an unnamed planet to conduct a peaceful ethnological survey only to discover a secret outpost of the Leagues deadly enemy. In Planet of Exile (1966), the fate of colonists from Earth stranded on distant Werel depends on working together with the planets indigenous peoples if they are to survive the oncoming fifteen-year winter. City of Illusions (1967), set far in the future on a sparsely populated Earth that has lost contact with all other planets and is ru

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Author

Ursula K. Le Guin; Brian Attebery

Publisher

New York: The Library of America

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598535389

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Humanities

Rating

4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14