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15. Rocannon’s World has a stupid tagline in the title. Ignore it. This book is short and is supposed to be the first part of a novella called "worlds of exile
by corethree 3y ago
15. Rocannon’s World has a stupid tagline in the title. Ignore it.
This book is short and is supposed to be the first part of a novella called "worlds of exile and illusion" which consists of a trilogy of stories.
Read the novella of 3 stories in order. Do not just read rocanonns world individually.
When read Separately the stories are your standard sci Fi fare but when wholistically read the trilogy becomes one of the most epic stories I have ever read. All three stories seem only slightly connected but as a trilogy all three stories combine to form a completely different epic tale that spans the entire universe.
I didn't really like Ursula's left hand of darkness. It was ok, but worlds of exile and illusion blew me away. But for some reason most people don't know about this gem and I think it's because the books were initially released separately.
The whole thing needs to be read in order as one book, the length of each story actually makes it better fit for a single book too, link:
Worlds of Exile and Illusion (Hainish) https://a.co/d/0jtS7Zb https://a.co/d/0jtS7Zb
Guaranteed there's nothing else like it in sci Fi both on television and in other sci Fi books.
- zem 3y agoI read the entire hainish cycle back to back in chronological order once, and it was a superb experience. the books aren't technically a series but they do build up a coherent universe and timeline between them.
- corethree 3y agoI would say the first three books form a series. An underlying story of a great interstellar war and how that war was first lost than won. Of course you won't be able to put all of this together until the last book in the trilogy, the last chapter. The other books can be read out of order, but the first three are a trilogy.