Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (Loa #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781598535389)

The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of "the nature of human nature," as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guin's subject. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author. This first volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers the first five Hainish novels: Rocannon's World, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; Planet of Exile, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; City of Illusions, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed--as well as four short stories.

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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN-10: 1598535382
ISBN-13: 9781598535389
Publisher: Library of America
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 1100
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.30d