If the first three books were milieu and setting, and the second (masterpiece) books were *absolutely everything*, the last two books on this list – while remaining “milieu” in the sense that we are in the usual Le Guin worldbuilding … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Hainish Novels
In one sense these books are almost brackets of the Hainish cycle. The Disposessed is positioned right at a beginning of the regathering of the worlds into a body of union, an alliance, in terms of a League of … Continue reading
I embarked on this epic re-read after word of Ursula Le Guin’s death came down, and in the throes of that loss. It seemed like the best way I knew how to honor someone so completely unique, someone whose passing … Continue reading
THE HAINISH NOVELS AND STORIES, Volumes One and Two, separately and in boxed set, coming September 5, 2017, from Library of America. Edited by Brian Attebery. Now available for pre-order.
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