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Il mondo di Rocannon (Rocannon's World) (original 1966; edition 1966)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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This debut novel from preeminent science-fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colonies have evolved into physically and culturally unique peoples, joined by a League of All Worlds. Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.… (more)
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Title:Il mondo di Rocannon (Rocannon's World)
Authors:Ursula K. Le Guin
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Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin (1966)

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I liked this a lot, but I love everything LeGuin writes. If you haven't read Left Hand of Darkness, start there. If you loved LHD, read this. ( )
  mmparker | Oct 24, 2023 |
Rocannon's World is interesting. LeGuin maintains a fairy tale quality of sorts while setting the story in a high science-fiction world, complete with FTL ships and ansibles. The combination is almost dream-like and provocative, but unfortunately falls into LeGuin's most common flaw -- a slowness that makes the book hard to want to pick up and difficult to concentrate once you have. ( )
  settingshadow | Aug 19, 2023 |
2020 review:
While I enjoyed the story, I found the sociological or ethnographic sections both hard to follow in audiobook format and dull. Sadly for me, the book opens with one of these sections so I started off with a bad impression... ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
Good characters, great world, slightly stiff pacing and style. Given her later, comfortably lyrical work, this definitely does feel like an early novel. ( )
  Synopsis2486 | May 15, 2023 |
More fantasy than sci-fi, this book seems to have its roots in Middle Earth. There are creatures that resemble dwarves, elves, ring wraiths, and even hobbits. Nonetheless, the story, even with the fantasy elements, does have a sci-fi flair. Here is the basis for the Ekumen, the ansible, and NAFAL (nearly as fast as light) travel. In other words, the fantasy and sci-fi work side by side to make something quite unique.
The majority of the novel focuses on Rocannon and Mogien, along with Kyo and others, and their trek south. They journey to find the enemy base, the home of those who have attacked and killed Rocannon's crew mates as well as many who dwell in cities on Fomalhaut II. Their goal is to find the enemy ansible and contact the League of All Worlds in order to alert them of the enemy presence.
For me, this book works. There were sections where I was mainly pulled along by Le Guin's poetic writing. Yet, overall, the story is a worthwhile look at the beginnings of Le Guin's world building. ( )
  psalva | Apr 17, 2022 |
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We do see Rocannon both as an alien anthropologist and as an Odin-figure, but it feels more forced. It’s also hard to like Rocannon, he’s too typical of the SF anthropologist hero, well equipped and resourceful, but too questioning of himself and the world to get away with that. I get the feeling that the story was pushing in the “what these people need is a honky” direction, in which Rocannon becomes a better alien than the aliens while saving their world and his, but Le Guin already right at the beginning of her career was pushing uphill against the weight of story.
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Tout d’abord, ce roman datant des années soixante présente de nombreux rebondissements et les personnages de Le Guin sont de la même veine que dans Terremer, trop humains et très attachants. Mais hélas, ce résumé se suffit à lui-même. Après un voyage qui constitue les trois quarts de l’intrigue et présente de nombreuses difficultés, la fin semble téléguidée… C’est bien mérité, dirons-nous. Et bien, non ! Depuis quand mérite-t-on de réussir parce qu’on a souffert ? Depuis qu’on lit l’imaginaire. Voilà exactement ce qu’on pourrait reprocher à ce livre un peu désuet : on y retrouve le pire (et il y en avait un peu, pas beaucoup, mais un peu) de Terremer ; un rien de niaiserie, un zeste de facilité narrative et une légère morale manichéenne que le plaisir du conte atténuait largement. C’est peut-être un tort de l’époque, cela dit. Mais cette fin téléguidée, l’enjeu rempli trop facilement, choque malgré tout. Le roman en devient sans grande conséquence, ni agréable ni pénible. Il traîne juste un peu en longueur, pour l’introduction à un cycle qui s’étend tout de même sur sept tomes…
 

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How can you tell the legend from the fact on those worlds that lie so many years away? - planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is the matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings of a few years back have become the gestures of a god.
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Dowry of the Angyar from Amazing, September 1964 is the prelude to this book.
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This debut novel from preeminent science-fiction writer Ursula LeGuin introduces her brilliant Hainish series, set in a galaxy seeded by the planet Hain with a variety of humanoid species, including that of Earth. Over the centuries, the Hainish colonies have evolved into physically and culturally unique peoples, joined by a League of All Worlds. Earth-scientist Rocannon has been leading an ethnological survey on a remote world populated by three native races: the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia, and the warrior clan, Liuar. But when the technologically primitive planet is suddenly invaded by a fleet of ships from the stars, rebels against the League of All Worlds, Rocannon is the only survey member left alive. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this newly discovered world and finds that legends grow around him as he fights.

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