Planet of Exile

Planet of Exile is a 1966 science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin in her Hainish Cycle. It was first published as one half of an Ace Double in 1966, bundled with Mankind Under the Leash by Thomas M. Disch. It was reissued in 1994, with two other early Le Guin novels, under the title Worlds of Exile and Illusion. The story is set on Werel, the third planet of the Gamma Draconis system. The planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, and is ... more

Planet of Exile is a 1966 science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin in her Hainish Cycle. It was first published as one half of an Ace Double in 1966, bundled with Mankind Under the Leash by Thomas M. Disch. It was reissued in 1994, with two other early Le Guin novels, under the title Worlds of Exile and Illusion. The story is set on Werel, the third planet of the Gamma Draconis system. The planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, and is approaching its correspondingly long winter. The main characters are members belong to one of two major groups: Wold and his daughter Rolery are members of the Tevarans, a tribe of humanoid extraterrestrial indigenous to the planet. Jakob Agat is a young man from a dwindling colony of Earth humans that have been effectively marooned on the planet. Although both populations share a common genetic heritage in the Hainish people, the difference is significant enough to prevent interbreeding (at least, so it is believed at the beginning of the... less