PF@MIT-XX.ARPA (02/05/84)
From: Paul Fuqua <PF@MIT-XX.ARPA>
I've noticed one author with a consistent universe who has been left out
of the digests I've read: Ursula K LeGuin. Most of her science-fiction
novels are placed in the same universe, with an unobtrusive internal
chronology that makes them very easy to enjoy "out of order." They are
(ordered roughly internally):
The Dispossessed
Rocannon's World
Planet of Exile
City of Illusions
The Word for World is Forest (novella)
The Left Hand of Darkness
This is not the order in which they were written, and the connections are
very tenuous in some instances. I'm also sure I've forgotten one, I usually
do (not the same one each time, either). Other books, not necessarily in the
same universe:
The Compass Rose (collection)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters (collection)
The Beginning Place
The Lathe of Heaven
The Earthsea Trilogy
A Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore
pf