Hamish Novels and Stories by Ursula Le Guin

Some books don’t just tell a story — they reshape the way you see the world. This is one of those collections.

Gathered here for the first time in a definitive, beautifully crafted Library of America edition, the first five novels of Ursula K. Le Guin’s legendary Hainish Cycle represent some of the most luminous science fiction ever written. As Margaret Atwood observed, Le Guin’s true subject was always “the nature of human nature” — and nowhere is that more powerfully on display than here.

This first volume includes:

• Rocannon’s World — an ethnologist on a bronze-age planet caught in an intergalactic war
• Planet of Exile — human colonists slowly losing their grip on an alien world
• City of Illusions — a future Earth under the silent rule of the mysterious Shing
• The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed — both Hugo Award and Nebula Award winners, and two of the most celebrated novels in the English language
• Four essential short stories rounding out the cycle

The Library of America edition is itself a thing of beauty — cloth cover, sewn binding, ribbon marker, acid-free pages built to last centuries. New introductions by Le Guin herself make this a collector’s treasure as much as a reader’s companion.

Whether you’re coming to the Hainish Cycle for the first time or returning like an old friend, this is the edition to own. It belongs on your shelf. Permanently.

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