Hainish Cycle: Planet of Exile (Audiobook)

from Ailinel

Planet of Exile is a short novel set in Le Guin's Hainish universe. It is a quick read set in a new location with new cultures (as well as the League members currently on the planet). The novel takes place on a colony planet where, due to a war the League was fighting, a group of colonists have b...

from CBJames

Ursula K. LeGuin's science fiction has always focused on ideas. This is one reason why I like her so much, her focus on foundational questions. What makes us human? What must we do to survive? While her science fiction always prompts reflection and discussion, what it sometimes lacks are the memo...

from Bruce_McNair

The people of Landin are farborn, i.e. their ancestors came from another world. Though they have lived on this world for many generations, the natives treat them as aliens, with suspicion, and sometimes outright fear and hatred. Yet winter is coming, and outside forces drive the two closer togeth...

from karamazow

This is a formative novelette incorporating some of the themes LeGuin developed later on a much larger scale. The endless winter of "Left Hand' and some of the ideas that would emerge in 'The dispossessed' are here in an embryonic state. The main theme (as mostly with this writer) is adaptation t...

from KingRat

Planet of Exile is one of Le Guin's earlier works. In fact, this 1978 edition includes an introduction in which the author spends a few paragraphs defending her lack of feminism in the book, explaining she wrote it before feminism got its hooks in to her. Like Rocanaon's World, the plot, settings...