Title Rocannon's World Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher Ace Books - 1966 First Printing Ace Books - 1966
	Title Planet of Exile Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title City of Illusions Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Left Hand of Darkness Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art Lesley Worrell Publisher Ace - 2010 First Printing 1969
	Title The Word for World is Forest Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Dispossessed Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art Danilo Ducak Publisher Eos - 2001 First Printing Harper & Row - 1974
	Title The Day Before the Revolution Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing 1974
	Title A Fisherman of the Inland Sea Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing 1994
	Title Four Ways to Forgiveness Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Title The Telling Author Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Art --- Publisher --- First Printing ---
	Category Science Fiction Warnings None Main Characters Shevek, Laia Odo, Genly Ai, Estraven, Gaverel Rocannon, Semley, Haldre, Mogien, Kyo, Raho, Yahan Main Elements Aliens Website ursulakleguin.com

Rocannon's World

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Dispossessed

Before I knew this was a series I already wrote a long review of The Dispossessed and The Day Before the Revolution so I won't cover them here.

Many short stories set in the same world are collected in The Found and the Lost: "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow", "The Matter of Seggri", "Another Story of a Fisherman of the Inland Sea", "Forgiveness Day", "A Man of the People", "A Woman's Liberation", "Old Music and the Slave Women"

The Left Hand of Darkness - was a pleasure to read. There was something in just the way it was written, that I would have enjoyed it even if I didn't care at all for the content. But I did enjoy the content, dealing with the "what if" question of - What would human society be like if everyone were both male and female at the same time, where the gender division doesn't exist? And what if, someone for Earth were to be placed in this society as an observer, how would he feel surrounded by these people who are neither male nor female but also both? I did wonder why Le Guin chose to use the male "he" to refer to these people, even when they were in a female state and pregnant (which at least drives home the lack of gender differentiation) but back in the 1960's she couldn't use "she", it would have seemed more awkward even, and there were no other gender terms ("it" doesn't apply since they aren't asexual). Anyway, while I didn't care much for The Dispossessed, I truly enjoyed reading this one.

Rocannon's World - One of the few cases where I read a series out of order, now jumping back to the first, and you can tell it is the first book, as it is less a social commentary and more your standard adventure novel. While this planet has several humanoid and non-humanoid intelligent life-forms, we do go deep into their interactions. If anything even Rocannon labels them as "good" or "bad" without truly taking time to understand them. And giant flying cats that are strong enough to ride, even on a world with less gavity than our own, seems a bit of a stretch. Or that a meeting with some being living in a cave would make someone telepathic overnight. But an author has to start somewhere and maybe a book like The Left Hand of Darkness would have been a hard sell if LeGuin hadn't gotten her foot in the door with something a little more standard at the time. And it definitely set up a rich world she could continue to explore. And she does get to explore a few deeper themes, like how does someone who is just a man, with a little technology to help him along, become not just a hero, but a legend? After all if you have a suit impervious to fire and someone tries to burn you at the stake and you walk away unscathed, that can certainly leave an impression on the locals. I look forward to catching up on the other books in this series.