Worlds of Exile and Illusion

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1. ninetyninenineApr 2024
   I think it's good for it's time. You have to realize it was the very very first of this genre.

   It ended up getting copied by fern gully and then james camerons avatar. But this was the very very first of the trope.

   But I agree when I read it, it wasn't good at all.

   I recommend "Worlds of exile and illusion" It's really good. The book is one epic story told through the lens of three smaller stories.

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2. InclinedPlaneJan 2011
   "Worlds of Exile and Illusion" (Hainish cycle collection) and "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K Le Quin

   "Singularity Sky" by Charles Stross

   "The Player of Games" by Iain M Banks

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3. jkmcfFeb 2024
   This past week I started Ursula Le Guin's "Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions"

   These are her earliest, published novels. The introduction is a bit odd as the author hasn't read much le Guin including her most popular, award winning books other than The Wizard of Earthsea.

   I'm not much of a critical reader, but these definitely do not have the philosophical depth (or I don't have the philosophical depth to pic up on it) of The Dispossessed and friends, but they are interesting and well written.

   https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Exile-Illusion-Rocannons-Illus...

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4. corethreeNov 2023
   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

   Guaranteed there's nothing else like it in sci Fi both on television and in other sci Fi books.

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