Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 2: The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / Stories, Hardcover/Ursula K. Le Guin

The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish novels and stories redrew the map of modern science fiction, making it a rich field for literary explorations of ``the nature of human nature,`` as Margaret Atwood has described Le Guin's subject. Now, for the first time, the complete Hainish novels and stories are collected in a definitive two-volume Library of America edition, with new introductions by the author. This second volume in a definitive two-volume edition gathers Le Guin's final two Hainish novels, The Word for World Is Forest , in which Earth enslaves another planet to strip its natural resources, and The Telling , the harrowing story of a society which has suppressed its own cultural heritage. Rounding out the volume are seven short stories and the story suite Five Ways to Forgiveness , published here in full for the first time. The endpapers feature a full-color chart of the known worlds of Hainish descent.