The Dispossessed is one of the best books in the Hainish Cycle book series. The nation of A-Io is the only nation on Urras described in extensive detail. Some time later, Wikipedia:City of Illusions provides a detailed description of Terra in the depths of a third era of isolation. The Dispossessed - Urras-Anarres (Tau Ceti); The Word for World is Forest - Athshe/New Tahiti; Rocannon's World - Rokanan (Fomalhaut II); Planet of Exile - Werel (Gamma Draconis III); City of Illusions - Terra; The Left Hand of Darkness - Gethen Its people are known as ki'O and it is notable for its unusual four-person "sedoretu" marriage system (a set combination of both genders and Wikipedia:sexual orientations). But there was no contact after the first ship, consisting entirely of people from Earth.

Eons ago, the Hainish people colonized many different worlds, including Terra (we know it as “Earth”), but their civilization collapsed and the knowledge that other human worlds existed was lost. Le Guin reveals in Wikipedia:The Left Hand of Darkness that there are 83 planets in the Ekumen, with Gethen a candidate for becoming the 84th. There are two likely explanations. Hoping to stumble upon a new author or series? It was settled after the invention of the Wikipedia:ansible and was planned as a defence against the enigmatic 'enemy'. Its people cannot conceive children or father them without a conscious decision to do so. Urras is also the setting of the short story "The Day Before the Revolution" which appears in the short-story collection Wikipedia:The Wind's Twelve Quarters. Havzhiva is a man who grows up on Hain, though he ends up working for the Hainish embassy on Yeowe. Beldene, Chiffewar, Cime, Ensbo, Four-Taurus, Gao, Gde, Huthu, Kapetyn, Kheakh, Orint, Ollul, Prestno, S, Sheashel Haven, Ve and Uttermosts are additional planets mentioned in one or more tales of the Hainish cycle.

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Athshe is peopled by a small, furred (but in fact fully human) group of HILFs (high-intelligence life forms.) [6] The oceans are simply named Tiuve Sea, Insel Sea, North Sea and Great South Sea. Ancient Hainish records refer to it as 'G-14-214-yomo' and also Tadkla. Outside of the fictional realm of the Hainish cycle, the Wikipedia:Kerguelen Islands are in the Southern Indian Ocean, the Wikipedia:New Georgia Islands are in the South Pacific Ocean and the Antarctic territory Wikipedia:South Georgia serves as the base of the Wikipedia:British Antarctic Survey. Also a moon with an orbit 400 days long, leading to some wild weather. Its chief city is Kerguelen. The Hainish series began in 1964 with the short story Dowry of the Angyar (aka Semley’s Necklace). Cetians appear or are mentioned in various other tales, mostly without specifying which world they come from. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Terra is the Wikipedia:Earth, the third planet of our solar system. As Alterra, Werel is also mentioned in Wikipedia:The Left Hand of Darkness and Wikipedia:Four Ways to Forgiveness. At this point it will be as bright as Wikipedia:Sirius.