Science Fiction

Planet of Exile

by Ursula K. Le Guin · Hainish Cycle series

A human colony enduring sixty-year winters faces extinction as native peoples encroach and food runs short. Le Guin examines exile in both directions—settlers marooned for generations, indigenous populations confronting the alien—as climate and cultural collision force an impossible alliance.

Hainish Cycle in reading order

• 1. Rocannon's World — Ursula K. Le Guin / Stefan Rudnicki
• 2. Planet of Exile — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 3. City of Illusions — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 4. The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• 5. The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Four Ways to Forgiveness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Birthday of the World and Other Stories — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Telling — Ursula K. Le Guin

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