Hainish novels & stories : Volume one
(Book)

The star-spanning story of humanity’s colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin’s visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction...." ...Publisher.

Map on end papers.

Originally published as individual titles: New York : Ace, 1966 (Rocannon's world, Planet of exile); 1967 (City of illusions); 1969 (The left hand of darkness); Harper & Row, 1974 (The dispossessed).

"The Library of America, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts." ...Publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

For more than a half century, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary science fiction has expanded boundaries and ambitions of the genre, bringing new literary aspiration to bold explorations of sexuality and gender, race and power, and the meaning of freedom. This volume, the first in a deluxe two-volume edition of her brilliant Hainish novels and stories, gathers five books, including her masterworks The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed (1974), and four stories, and features a new introduction by the author.