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1966
Rocannon's World
An ethnologist for the human alliance "League of all Worlds", Gaverel Rocannon, arrives on a planet with medieval civilizations to study its peoples. Soon after, exploitative developers arrive, cutting him off from help. With the help of his newly-found allies, he makes a journey across continents to infiltrate their camps and use the their [motif/ansible] to call secretly for help.
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1969
The Left Hand of Darkness
An envoy for the Ekumen - a coalition of worlds - visits a unique planet called Gethen/Winter where the population is genderless and sexless, and finds it difficult to understand their psychology.
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1971
Lathe of Heaven
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1972
The Word for World is Forest
A military logging company has arrived on Athshe from Earth, and enslave the totally non-aggressive Athsheans, a diminutive people. However, one native, Selver, ascends to a seeming god or prophet status to lead a rebellion to destroy the human logging camp.
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1973
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Partially story, partially essay, Omelas describes a city with a beautiful summer festival, whose joy and peace depend on the suffering of a single child.
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1974
The Dispossessed
A young genius physicist is caught between the politics of his anarchist homeworld and its foreign capitalist neighbor.
