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Book Cover for: 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 /, Ursula K. Le Guin

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 /

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Library of America
  • Publish Date: Sep 5th, 2017
  • Pages: 1100
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.30in - 1.30in - 1.50lb
  • EAN: 9781598535389
  • Categories: • Science Fiction - Collections & Anthologies• Literary

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About the Author

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most celebrated writers of her generation, recipient of multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Brian Attebery, editor, is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler and is the author of Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other books.

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Praise for this book

"Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself." --Zadie Smith

"Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory."
--Jonathan Lethem

"Belongs in the library of everyone who enjoys the best that science fiction has to offer." --Locus Magazine