Planet of Exile

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ace, 1966 - Fiction - 126 pages

An alliance between the powerful Tevars and the brown-skinned, clairvoyant Farbons must take place if the two colonies are to withstand the fierce attack of the nomadic tribes from the north of the planet Eltanin.

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User Review  - neverstopreading - LibraryThing

This story examines humanity's possible interactions with others of a similar species when cut off from the rest of humanity for centuries with no reason known. The survivors are not prisoners or ...

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User Review  - DelightedLibrarian - LibraryThing

I couldn't get into the flow of the book and the ending was resolved but not because of anything any of the characters did. It was like there was all this potential, an amazing world, but not a well told story.

Contents

• Section 1: 15
• Section 2: 34
• Section 3: 41

About the author

Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California, in 1929. Her novels include Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, and The Left Hand of Darkness. With the awarding of the 1975 Hugo and Nebula Awards to The Dispossessed, she became the first author to win both awards twice for novels. Le Guin lives in Portland, Oregon.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Planet of Exile; Ace double-novel books; Ace science fiction; Garland Library of Science Fiction; The Hainish Series
• Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
• Edition: reissue
• Publisher: Ace, 1966
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 11, 2008
• ISBN: 0441669573, 9780441669578
• Length: 126 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General