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  The Left Hand of Darkness

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.
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  Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Worlds of Exile and Illusion contains the three novels that launched multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin’s career — Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions. In Rocannon's World, a returning spaceman finds that his past actions have made him a god. In Planet of Exile, the hilfs and farborns battle the gaals and snow ghouls. In City of Illusions, a man embarks upon a... (more)
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  THE TELLING

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of the past have been destroyed, and citizens are strictly monitored. But an official observer from Earth will discover a group of outcasts who still practice its lost religion-the Telling. Intrigued by their beliefs, she joins them on a sacred pilgrimage into the mountains...and into the dangerous terrain of her own... (more)
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  ALWAYS COMING HOME

  by Ursula Le Guin

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  Changing Planes: Stories

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  "Then came a child trotting to school with his little backpack. He trotted on all fours, neatly, his hands in leather mitts or boots that protected them from the pavement; he was pale, with small eyes, and a snout, but he was adorable." --from Changing Planes The misery of waiting for a connecting flight at an airport leads to the accidental discovery of alighting on other planes--not airplanes but planes of... (more)