Ursula Kroeber Le Guin “redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergent societies—the result of both evolution and genetic engineering—allow her to speculate on what is intrinsic in human nature.” https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories Incorporating ‘The Dowry of Angyar’ – a …
Planet of Exile (1966) by Ursula K Le Guin, in Worlds of Exile and Illusion.Orb Books, 1996. Five thousand nights of Winter, five thousand days of it: the rest of their youth and maybe the rest of their lives. Chapter 14 Stranded for six centuries on a planet circling the star Gamma Draconis – Eltanin, …
Following Rocannon’s World, the second of Ursula K Le Guin’s published Hainish novels was Planet of Exile (1966), and it’s the second title up for discussion in the series of posts with the #LoveHain tag. You may well know the drill by now: three questions follow which you’re free to answer but which you can …
Rocannon’s World (1966)by Ursula K Le Guin,in Worlds of Exile and Illusion. Orb Books, 1996. “I ride with Olhor, who seeks to hear his enemy’s voice, who has traveled through the great dark, who has seen the World hang like a blue jewel in the darkness.”— Chapter VII An ethnologist from the League of All …
“People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in — the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen cycle or saga or something. The thing is, they aren’t a cycle or a saga. They do not form a coherent history. There are some clear connections among …
“Behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful; and it stood just by the highway side.”— John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress Reading Susanna Clarke‘s novel Piranesi awoke all kinds of echoes for me. The repetition, especially, of the narrator’s paean of praise to the place in which he …
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