Worlds of Exile and Illusion

Publisher: Orb Books

Published: 2016-12-13

Type: BOOK

Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained here. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness.

Rocannon's World

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Type: BOOK

Book 3: A world shared by three native humanoid races the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.

Planet of Exile

Publisher: Ace Books

Published: 1982

Type: BOOK

Threatened by an army of nomadic tribesmen, the Tevar colony and their enemies the farborns must form an alliance to survive the war and the fifteen-year-long winter of their isolated planet.

The Word for World is Forest

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2010-07-06

Type: BOOK

The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered.

Always Coming Home

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001-02-27

Type: BOOK

An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.

The Telling

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2000-09-11

Type: BOOK

Though The Telling is often considered the eighth book of the Hainish Cycle, Le Guin maintained that there is no particular cycle or order for the Ekumen novels.

Rocannon's World

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2015-10-01

Type: BOOK

She is legend' THE TIMES 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS 'A tour de force' EVENING STANDARD Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by ...

The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-02-14

Type: BOOK

Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of ...

Five Ways to Forgiveness

Publisher: Library of America

Published: 2017-09-05

Type: BOOK

Of this capstone tale Le Guin has written, “the character called Old Music began to tell me a fifth tale about the latter days of the civil war . . . I’m glad to see it joined to the others at last.”