Ekumen series

The Ekumen series is a series of loosely-connected stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The stories are loosely connected through the device of the "Ekumen", a federation of human-inhabited worlds. The backstory is that the original human world, Hain, seeded all the other human-inhabited worlds, leading to numerous different cultures and even morphological variation (for example, the Gethenians). After Hainish civilization collapsed, the Ekumen formed, and sends representatives to other worlds.

Works

• Rocannon's World (1964)
• "Dowry of the Angyar" (1964; republished as "Semley's Necklace")
• Planet of Exile (1966)
• City of Illusions (1967)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• "Winter's King" (1969)
• "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971)
• "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974)
• The Dispossessed (1974)
• The Word for World Is Forest (1976)
• "The Shobies' Story" (1990)
• "Dancing to Ganam" (1993)
• "Another Story, or, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994)
• "The Matter of Seggri" (1994)
• "Unchosen Love" (1994)
• "Solitude" (1994)
• "Coming of Age on Karhide" (1995)
• Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
• "Mountain Ways" (1996)
• "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999)
• The Telling (2000)

See also

• Ekumen universe, including list of planets
• Ekumen chronology
• Ekumen - the organization