Pages Tagged “Hainish Cycle”
Reviews
- City of Illusions
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
How can you be yourself when you don’t know who you really are? A story of isolation, adaptation, kindness, cruelty, trust and hope, and above all, how to piece together the truth (or at least pick out the lies) on a future, depopulated Earth. - Five Ways to Forgiveness
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
Five loosely-connected stories set in the final years of a color-based enslaving society, the war for liberation, and the messy aftermath. - Planet of Exile
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
A tighter story than Rocannon’s World, with better-drawn characters, and more ambitious in its worldbuilding and themes. - Rocannon’s World
★★★☆☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
A serviceable quest story that melds fantasy and sci-fi. Engaging enough, but I’d only recommend it to someone who’s read her later work. - The Telling
★★★★★
Ursula K. Le Guin
A thoughtful tale of discovery, as an observer from Earth struggles to find and understand fragments of the lost cultures hidden beneath a society that’s thrown away its past in favor of a single vision. - Vaster Than Empires And More Slow
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
An intriguing story of a dysfunctional crew dealing with each other and a planet that, at first glance, appears to have no sentient life, only plants. - The Wind’s Twelve Quarters
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
A collection of short stories from early in Le Guin’s career, spanning her first sale through the time when she’d begun to be recognized as a major force in the genre. - The Word for World is Forest
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
Infuriating to read…and that’s the point. A story of colonial exploitation, asymmetric warfare, dehumanization and environmental destruction. - Worlds of Exile and Illusion
★★★★☆
Ursula K. Le Guin
Interesting to see Le Guin as she’s developing her craft. Not the best place to start with her work, but absolutely worth reading.
Blog Posts
- Ursula K. Le Guin eBook Bundle (Ended)
Humble Bundle is offering 30 books* by Ursula K. Le Guin supporting the Literary Arts charity, including all of Earthsea, several Hainish novels, Catwings, short stories, Gifts/Voices/Powers, nonfiction writing… I’ve read the Earthsea series (good-to-great) and most of the Hainish novels (some great, some good, some OK), plus Lathe of Heaven (great), and I’ve got […]