Ursula K. LeGuin is best known for her award-winning sci-fi novels The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Disposessed (1974). These are both part of her loose "Hainish cycle", but far fewer people have read the books which began the series.This episode looks at LeGuin's first three novels - Rocannon's World (1966), Planet of Exile (1966) and City of Illusions (1967) - to see how they fit into the author's wider SF project.Support the showFor lots more writing on classic science fiction, other books, video games, and more check our my site andyjohnson.xyz and follow me on Twitter: @andyjohnsonuk