Three Hainish Novels (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cultural exploration
- Time of Work: A span of twelve hundred years, sometime in the future
- Setting: Earth and two other planets within the League of All Worlds
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, Earth
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The three novels chronicle the beginning, middle, and end of a dark age for the League of All Worlds. An extragalactic invader destroys the League, not through superior firepower but by undermining bonds of trust and cooperation. Each novel dramatizes the evolution of telepathic skills that eventually will equip humanity and its ally HILFs (Higher Intelligence Life Forms) to repel the enemy’s attack on mind and culture.
In Rocannon’s World, the planet Formalhaut II, a League ally, comes under attack by a rebel group within the League. Rocannon sets...
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