{"id":12711,"date":"2018-08-20T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12711"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:42:52","slug":"hainish-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/hainish-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hainish universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s novels and stories take places in her Hainish universe. Here are all of those books. This is one of the best science fiction series ever created &#8212; look at how many of them are 5\/5. It&#8217;s a loose series &#8212; each book focuses on different characters and places.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/rocannons-world\/\">Rocannon&#8217;s World<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1966 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/planet-of-exile\/\">Planet of Exile<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1966 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/city-of-illusions\/\">City of Illusions<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1967 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/the-left-hand-of-darkness\/\">The Left Hand of Darkness<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1969 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/four-ways-to-forgiveness\/\">The Word for World Is Forest<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1972 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-dispossessed\/\">The Dispossessed<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>1974 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/four-ways-to-forgiveness\/\">Four Ways to Forgiveness<\/a> (collection)\n<ul>\n<li>1995 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Telling\n<ul>\n<li>2000 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Birthday of the World (collection)\n<ul>\n<li>2002 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s novels and stories take places in her Hainish universe. Here are all of those books. This is one of the best science fiction series ever created &#8212; look at how many of them are 5\/5. It&#8217;s a loose series &#8212; each book focuses on different characters and places. Rocannon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7,42,8],"class_list":["post-12711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-book","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25567,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12711\/revisions\/25567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}