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a few hours for those on board. It cannot be used for trips within a solar system. Trips can begin or end close to a planet, but if used without a "retemporalizer", there are drastic physical effects at the end of long trips, at least according to the Shing, whose information may be suspect. It is also lethal if the traveler is pregnant.
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it is recalled as having been a league of some 80 worlds at the time it was destroyed by aliens called the Shing, who are uniquely able to lie in mindspeech. After the apparent overthrow of the Shing by the descendants of marooned
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Hainish people, along with the Gethenians and the degenerate winged hominoids of Rokanan. We hear no more about the hilfs of S, unless these are the same as the small furry natives of Athshe, who are
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Anarres, should allow people to go instantly from solar system to solar system. It is a development of the work of Shevek, whose tale is told in
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Collection of all Hainish novels and stories in two volumes.
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1603:. Riverdale, NY: Baen. p. 89.
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243:Then in the collection of stories
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863:Prometheus award nominated, 1996
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2625:Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
2004:Barbour, Douglas (Spring 1974).
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342:in interbreeding (as related in
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170:The seventh and final novel,
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2421:The Word for World Is Forest
1723:"Index of Literary Nominees"
1640:Threats & Other Promises
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1382:Le Guin, Ursula K. (2007).
1352:Le Guin, Ursula K. (2007).
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1961:(3). Broken Mirrors Press.
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528:Four Ways to Forgiveness.
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186:—and not of the League.
155:Again, Dangerous Visions
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1842:. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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288:Universe of the stories
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1058:The Found and the Lost
510:In "Another Story" in
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2168:A Wizard of Earthsea
2055:"The Hainish Series"
1502:, Barnes & Noble
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1443:Hainish Encyclopedia
1414:"A Note from Ursula"
1182:The Matter of Seggri
802:Five Complete Novels
760:Three Hainish Novels
591:The Matter of Seggri
269:The Eye of the Heron
213:Then you could read
88:The Matter of Seggri
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2617:The Lathe of Heaven
2499:A Man of the People
2456:The Dowry of Angyar
2345:Earthsea Revisioned
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274:The Lathe of Heaven
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2176:The Tombs of Atuan
1920:Silverberg, Robert
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