Planet of Exile, Ursula K. Le Guin
Planet of Exile, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Planet of Exile

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie and Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2007

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

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 for 15 years the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the Earthmen, whom they think of as witches and call the farborns. But hilfs and farborns have common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarians called gaals and eerie preying snow ghouls. Will they join forces or be annihilated?

About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality, and ethnography.

Ursula has influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell-and notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zanna on October 20, 2015

I am glad I made the decision to read the Hainish cycle from the start, even though I owe this to my OCD reading style. While each novel is entirely capable of standing alone, has very different protagonists and raises very different issues, the continuity of the world-building was satisfying. I esp......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on April 18, 2022

3.0 Stars The Hainish Cycle is an incredibly famous classic science fiction series. Yet, I feel like everyone (myself included) only reads the Left Hand of Darkness even though it's technically the fourth book in a series. So I was very grateful for the opportunity to finally read the first three boo......more

Goodreads review by manuti on June 20, 2022

Este libro es una recopilación de 3 novelas que se publicó en inglés de esta forma y también está traducido en español. Me resulta raro que hayan hecho esto dos veces con los libros del ciclo Hainish para englobarlos en este libro y en el que leí antes Los mundos de Ursula K. Le Guin. En esta ocasió......more