Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories: A Library of America Boxed Se

<b>For the first time, a deluxe collector's edition of the pathbreaking novels and stories that reinvented science fiction, with new introductions by the author.<br></b><br><i><b>Winner of the 2018 Locus Award for Best SF Collection.</b></i> <p/>In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i> and <i>The Dispossessed</i>, Ursula K. Le Guin redrew the map of modern science fiction, imagining a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain, an array of worlds whose divergent societies--the result of both evolution and genetic engineering--allow her to speculate on what is intrinsic in human nature. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, with new introductions by the author. <p/>Volume one gathers the first five Hainish novels: <i>Rocannon's World</i>, in which an ethnologist sent to a bronze-age planet must help defeat an intergalactic enemy; <i>Planet of Exile</i>, the story of human colonists stranded on a planet that is slowly killing them; <i>City of Illusions</i>, which finds a future Earth ruled by the mysterious Shing; and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpieces <i>The Left Hand of Darkness</i> and <i>The Dispossessed</i>--as well as four short stories. <p/>Volume two presents Le Guin's final two Hainish novels, <i>The Word for World Is Forest</i>, in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its