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56:"), are contacting each other for the first time and establishing diplomatic relations, and setting up a confederacy under the guidance of the oldest of the human worlds, peaceful Hain. In this history, human beings did not evolve on Earth but were the result of interstellar colonies planted by Hain long ago, which was followed by a long period when interstellar travel ceased. Some of the races have new genetic traits, a result of ancient Hainish experiments in genetic engineering, including people who can dream while awake, and a world of 417:
a few hours for those on board. It cannot be used for trips within a solar system. Trips can begin or end close to a planet, but if used without a "retemporalizer", there are drastic physical effects at the end of long trips, at least according to the Shing, whose information may be suspect. It is also lethal if the traveler is pregnant.
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it is recalled as having been a league of some 80 worlds at the time it was destroyed by aliens called the Shing, who are uniquely able to lie in mindspeech. After the apparent overthrow of the Shing by the descendants of marooned Terrans and the inhabitants of Alterra / Werel who have succeeded
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Physical communication is by NAFAL (Nearly As Fast As Light) ships. The physics is never explained; the ship vanishes from where it was and reappears somewhere else many years later. The trip takes slightly longer than it would to cross the same distance at the speed of light, but ship-time is just
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mentions that the hilfs of S must have been produced by human genetic manipulation by the ancient Hainish people, along with the Gethenians and the degenerate winged hominoids of Rokanan. We hear no more about the hilfs of S, unless these are the same as the small furry natives of Athshe, who are
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Alterrans have distinctive cat-like eyes. While normally unable to breed with Earth-humans, the latter become sufficiently genetically similar within a few centuries on their planet due to unspecified natural factors. This almost drives the Earth-descended colony to extinction due to the genetic
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Unique among known humans, the Hainish have complete voluntary control of their fertility. In order for a Hainish man and woman to reproduce, they must both consciously choose to produce viable genetic material, which they learn to do in adolescence. The required genetic changes to the Hainish
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Le Guin herself often discounted the characterization of a "Hainish Cycle", writing on her website that "The thing is, they aren't a cycle or a saga. They do not form a coherent history. There are some clear connections among them, yes, but also some extremely murky ones."
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The degenerate winged hominoids are seen in Rocannon's World. They live in cities that require much higher technology to build than the rest of the races on Rokanan, but live in bat-like societies, hunting for humans and animals on which their larvae feed by sucking their
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This seems to have happened in two phases: First, the League of All Worlds was formed, as an alliance of planets, mostly descended from colonization efforts from the planet Hain, uniting the "nine known worlds" — presumably along with new colonies. By the time of
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Hainish civilization subsequently collapsed, and the colony planets (including Earth) forgot that other human worlds existed. The Ekumen stories tell of the efforts to re-establish a civilization on a galactic scale through NAFAL (Nearly As Fast As Light)
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Most of the people in the tales have a common descent from the planet Hain, whose people settled many worlds. Some of them are genetically similar enough to produce children together. The unusual hairiness of the Cetians is mentioned in
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The Ekumen (or the League of All Worlds, though that is also believed to be the previous planetary coalition, before some sort of galactic crisis) contains a very large number of planets and is continually exploring new ones. Genly Ai in
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The ambisexual humans of Gethen may have been produced as an adaptation to a harsh climate, or an experiment to see how people would live without gender. Both ideas are mentioned and nothing is definitely
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Churten theory, as developed by the physicists of Anarres, should allow people to go instantly from solar system to solar system. It is a development of the work of Shevek, whose tale is told in
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explains that there are 83 planets in the Ekumen, with Gethen a candidate for becoming the 84th. The process of reaching out to potential civilizations is a tedious and sometimes dangerous one.
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of the land. The population has fallen from nine billion to half a billion, who only survive by rationing, labor conscription, euthanasia, forced birth control, and the charity of the Hainish.
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are the product of genetic engineering, as are the "hilfs" ("highly intelligent life forms") of Planet S(whose story has not been told), and probably the androgynous humans of Gethen in
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mentions automatic death-machines that work on the same principle as the ansible and can strike instantly at distant worlds. Such a device is clearly used in the events of
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differences between mothers and fetuses causing miscarriages. The Alterrans may be another case of genetic manipulation, or a similar natural adaptation themselves.
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Hain itself has gone back to a simpler life, with high technology used only where it can be justified, as is told in the first part of "A Man of the People" in
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are not of Hainish origin and cannot interbreed with Earth-humans. They dismiss the report about the human adaptation on Alterra as impossible.
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are new creations, and the term "Ekumen" is not used; it is set before any of the first four books. It was part of the anthology
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will manifest in them. In keeping with Le Guin's style, she uses varied social and environmental settings to explore the
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to a long-past "Age of the Enemy", which presumably refers to the time that the Shing controlled Terra, portrayed in
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taking years to travel between stars (although only weeks or months from the viewpoint of the traveler because of
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Eleven-Soro had a high level of technology and then a massive crash, as is told in the short story "Solitude" in
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tells us that the extreme gender imbalance of the people of Seggri may be another case of genetic manipulation.
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are in several of the stories. These are portrayed as the end result of the wrong kind of civilizations, i.e.,
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is part of that universe, and so is the novel The Telling. But I have to warn you that the planet Werel in
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when they mounted the first shipboard ansible, and at first it was only one-way, from the planet to us.
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Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the people of Hain colonized a large number of worlds, including
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population were made in the far distant past, and apparently took many generations to accomplish.
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Le Guin offers the following thoughts on the order in which readers should approach the series:
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in which civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including
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Orint and Kheakh are mentioned in passing as worlds that have totally destroyed themselves.
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Societies tend to use sophisticated but unobtrusive technologies. Most notable is the
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The ansible has been adopted by other science fiction and fantasy authors, such as
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may or may not be set in the Hainish universe; it really doesn’t matter. As for
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people who only come into active sexuality once a month, not knowing which
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Le Guin, Ursula K. (1994). Cholfin, Bryan (ed.). "The Matter of Seggri".
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of the Ekumen—which now includes the Gethenians, who were the subject of
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includes the detail that the people of Chiffewar are all bald.
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it has grown but is also under threat from a distant enemy. In
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Collection of all Hainish novels and stories in two volumes.
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What matters is we built the ansible. The official name is
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outcomes of human evolution in those diverse environments.
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There are some cases of ancient biological manipulation:
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Index

Ekumen
science fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin
future history
Terra
Earth
hermaphroditic
sex
anthropological
sociological
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed
The Word for World Is Forest
The Day Before the Revolution
The Matter of Seggri
Rocannon's World
Planet of Exile
City of Illusions
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Word for World Is Forest
ansible
Again, Dangerous Visions
The Dispossessed
The Telling
The Left Hand of Darkness
Rocannon's World
Planet of Exile
City of Illusions
The Word for World is Forest
The Left Hand of Darkness

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