Children's Fiction

The Telling

by Ursula K. Le Guin · Hainish Cycle series

An Observer arrives on Aka to document a banned religion, finding a world where corporate theocracy has replaced spiritual practice with consumer faith. Le Guin's quiet novel of cultural genocide and oral tradition, where telling becomes the last form of resistance against a regime that has monetized devotion itself.

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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