Worlds of Exile and Illusion

Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume—Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alyssa Bresnahan

Three remarkable journeys into the stars

Worlds of Exile and Illusion includes Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions.

These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.

The novels collected here are the first three ever published by Le Guin, a frequent winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time.

“What an immense imagination, what a strong and trenchant mind.”—Margaret Atwood

©1966, 1994, 1964, 1967, 1995 Rocannon's World ©1966 by Ace Books, Inc., ©1994 by Ursula K. Le Guin. Part of this novel appeared in Amazing Stories, September 1964, as a short story, and is ©1964 by Ziff-Davis Publications, Inc. / Planet of Exile ©1966, 1994 by Ursula K. Le Guin / City of Illusions ©1967, 1995 by Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2024 Recorded Books

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As all great fiction does, these books reflect the eternality of life and the human condition. How can one know what one should do? How one shoukd act? When met with adversity will you overcome it, survive it? What of your friends and loved ones? In a grand winding tale of a war beyond comprehension, won as it is lost, Leguin carves a tale from the cosmos which brings high fantasy to science fiction, and peoplehood to many worlds.

Also in Chapter 9 of City of Illusion there is a remnant narrator comment that didn't get edited out.

The overarching integrity of three tales into one story.

LeGuin makes sense of our existence through storytelling. She says it clearly in her preface to The Left Hand of Darkness. The artist creates a lie to reveal the truth.

Unique

This story is unique in its own right. Somehow the author found a way of combining mid-evil concepts with futuristic fantasy.

Well and Beautifully Told

This was a most wonderful trilogy of well written and beautifully told stories with rich language, splendid pacing, and well-formed characters. Bravo!