# 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 / - Hardcover

by **Ursula K. Le Guin** (Author), **Brian Attebery** (Editor)

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.

### Author Biography

**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.

**Number of Pages:** 1100

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2017

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