Le Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: A revolt of slaves in space ends in disillusion for the women. The men have become free, but the women are oppressed as ever. So, on one of the planets women launch their own war of liberation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1995
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Summary: This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin’s final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling, the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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Summary: "When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2019