Grab Library of America's collection of Hainish novels, volume one. In that body of work -- Rocannon's World (mindspeech, ansible, empathy), Planet of Exile (fo

Grab Library of America's collection of Hainish novels, volume one. In that body of work -- Rocannon's World (mindspeech, ansible, empathy), Planet of Exile (forgetting one's history), City of Illusions (divided mind), Left Hand of Darkness (ambisexuality), The Dispossessed (collectivist anarchy, invention of the ansible) -- you can see Le Guin grow as a writer, in her ambition to explore themes from anthropology and her casual brilliance in building out a coherent scifi universe.