Planet of Exile (Hainish Series)
ISBN:
9781574535778 (1574535773)
Publish date: April 10th 2005
Publisher: Audio Literature
Edition language: English
Series: Hainish Cycle (#2)
More of a Rocannon flavor than The Dispossessed, in that it's more of a gorgeous and bittersweet cross between sci-fy, fantasy and adventure than hypothetical worlds heavy in social commentary (not to say any asides are completely absent). Which in checking makes sense, since Rocannon is the first...
This was Ursula Le Guin's second novel, one of the books in her Hainish series that includes the famous Left Hand of Darkness. It's not anywhere near as impressive as that book or the first three Earthsea books, classics in science fiction and fantasy. But more so than her first novel, Rocannon's Wo...
I'd say a more accurate rating would be 3.5 going on 4.I honestly liked this book, but it was so short that I was left with a sense of disappointment. I wish it'd been longer, and more things would have been shown and told about the history of all the people there.
I'd say a more accurate rating would be 3.5 going on 4.I honestly liked this book, but it was so short that I was left with a sense of disappointment. I wish it'd been longer, and more things would have been shown and told about the history of all the people there.
Opening: "In the last days of the moonphase of Autumn a wind blew from the northern ranges through the dying forests of Askatevar, a cold wind that smelled of smoke and snow." I had previously read the first book in this trilogy (Rocannon's World), and enjoyed it. I've been meaning to finish out the...
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