Hainish series
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Series
Hainish series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds.
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Series
Hainish series volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Language
English
Description
When the Athsheans, the inhabitants of a peaceful world, are conquered by the bloodthirsty Yumens, they retaliate against their captors, abandoning their rules against violence and endangering the very foundations of their society.
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Rocannon's world , Hainish series volume 3
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Planet of exile , Hainish series volume 4
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City of illusions , Hainish series volume 5
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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...
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Four ways to forgiveness , Hainish series volume 7
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8) The Telling
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Series
Hainish series volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Winner of the Locus Award • Winner of the Endeavor Award
"[Le Guin] can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory—in The Telling, she does both, gorgeously." —Jonathan Lethem
Sutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world—a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporation.
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