Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929 - 2018)

Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest...

Collection of six "high fantasy" books taking place on the world of Earthsea : a vast archipelago of hundreds of islands surrounded by mostly uncharted ocean. In most ...

Hainish cycle is set in a future history that features civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra ("Earth");...

The Ekumen is a loose confederation of cca 83 human worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish cycle. It is not an empire but a network for communication, exchange, and mutual ...

LeGuin's most favorite archetypes are those of "Observers" / "Messengers" / "Bridge-Builders-Between-Worlds".  According to their code-of-conduct, emissaries should no...

Hainish novel set on Gethen (Winter), where humans undergo 24-day "somer" (ambisexual) and 2-day "kemmer" (male or female; fertility and receptiveness) cycles. Terran ...

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Paired worlds: Anarres (anarchist, austere) and Urras (capitalist, lush) — one origin, two social experiments.Physicist Shevek leaves Anarres to complete a theory of t...

We'll spend great deal of next summer-semester analyzing this book.

Is the planet on which Earthsea cycle stories unfold part of the Ekumen/Hain universe ?

"Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust… In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes. But they are of the same essence… Without trust, ...