The Hainish novels & stories - Ursula K. Le Guin

For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.

Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Collection.

In such visionary masterworks as theNebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand ofDarkness and The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galacticconfederation of human colonies founded by theplanet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergentsocieties-the result of both evolution and geneticengineering-allow her to speculate on what isintrinsic in human nature. Now, for the first time, thecomplete Hainish novels and stories are collected in adeluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set,with new introductions by the author.

Volume onegathers the first five Hainish novels:Rocannon's World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-ageplanet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy;Planet of Exile, thestory of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them;City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by themysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winningmasterpiecesThe Left Hand of DarknessandThe Dispossessed-aswell as four short stories.

Volume two presents Le Guin's final twoHainish novels,The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earthenslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, andTheTelling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed itsown cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven shortstories and the story suiteFive Ways to Forgiveness, published herein full for the first time.

The endpapers feature Le Guin's own hand-drawn map of Gethen, the planet that is the setting for The Left Hand of Darkness, and a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.

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