Russell's ebook Library
1 - Planet of Exile
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [1]: The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years � and ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years, and the lonely and dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain.Every winter a season that lasts ...
2 - Rocannon's World
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [2]: A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern - dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he s...
3 - City of Illusions
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [3]: This is the story of a journey of discovery - a story full of riddles, allegories and echoes of ancient cultures; of Utopia, a fantastic city. It is a story of the discovery of many alien cultures in a "far-future Earth", of identity and ...
4 - The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [4]: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the univer...
5 - The Dispossessed
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [5]: The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist wor...
6 - The Word for World Is Forest
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [6]: When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the A...
7 - Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [7]: This book contains four linked novellas set in the same part of the galaxy over slightly different moments in its history. The stories revolve around the inhabitants of Werel, a slave-owning male-dominated planet, and those of its colony ...
8 - The Telling
Ursula K Le Guin
Hanish [8]: 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.Embracing the sophisticated technology brought by other worlds and desiring to...
