Ekumen chronology

This is a rough proposed chronology for the works in the Ekumen series. The chronology is estimated, as Ursula K. Le Guin has not published an "official" timeline.

Pre-League of Worlds

• Date missing several 100 year before The Dispossessed The Day Before the Revolution
• c.2300 CE / LY -50 / EY ? - The Dispossessed

League of Worlds

• c.2368 CE / LY 18 / EY ? - The Word for World Is Forest
• c.2684 CE / LY 334 / EY ? - Rocannon's World

Post-League of Worlds, but Pre-Ekumen

• c.3755 CE / LY 1405 / EY ? - Planet of Exile

Ekumen

• c.4370 CE / LY 2020 / EY ? - City of Illusions
• c.4670 CE / LY 2520 / EY 1491- The Left Hand of Darkness
• date unknown The Telling (note some of the discription of earth flatly contradicts thing in City of Illusions)
• date unknown Coming of Age in Karhide
• date unknown Winter's King (post The Left Hand of Darkness)
• date unknown The Matter of Seggri
• date unknown Unchosen Love (this and the next could take place at anytime O being quite unchanging)
• date unknown Mountain Ways

Werel and Yeowe (These are undated but are listed in chronological order within themselves)

• Betrayals
• Forgiveness Day
• A Man of the People
• A Woman's Liberation
• Old Music and the Slave Women

Churten (These are undated but are listed in chronological order within themselves)

• The Shobies' Story
• Dancing to Ganam
• Another Story OR A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

Key

CE = Common Era (aka "AD")

LY = League Year

EY = Ekumen Year

Notes

• Ian Watson, 1975 March, Science Fiction Studies, proposed chronology for first six novels.Article