![]() ![]() But I have to warn you that the planet Werel in Four Ways is not the planet Werel in Planet of Exile. The story suite Four Ways to Forgiveness is part of that universe, and so is the novel The Telling. Then in the collection of stories A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, the three last stories are Ekumenical, and we even finally find out a little about Hain, where it all began. In Dispossessed, the ansible gets invented but they’re using it in Left Hand, which was written fifteen years earlier. Then you could read The Word for World is Forest, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, in any order. In them there is a “League of Worlds,” but the Ekumen does not yet exist. ![]() Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions: where they fit in the “Hainish cycle” is anybody’s guess, but I’d read them first because they were written first. And some great discontinuities (like, what happened to "mindspeech” after Left Hand of Darkness? Who knows? Ask God, and she may tell you she didn’t believe in it any more.) There are some clear connections among them, yes, but also some extremely murky ones. The thing is, they aren’t a cycle or a saga. People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in - the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen cycle or saga or something. In what order should I read the Ekumen, Earthsea, and Catwings books? Please be sure to include the proper photo credit and/or make arrangements with the photographer for a license. ![]()
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