PLANET OF EXILE

'''Planet of Exile''' is a 1966 science-fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin in her Hainish Cycle. It was first published as one half of an Ace Double in 1966, bundled with ''Mankind Under the Leash'' by Thomas M. Disch. It was reissued in 1994, with two other early Le Guin novels, under the title ''Worlds of Exile and Illusion''.

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Plot summary

The story is set on Werel, the third planet of the Gamma Draconis system. The planet has an orbital period of 60 Earth years, and is at the approach of its correspondingly long winter. Two of the main characters, Wold and his daughter Rolery, are members of a tribe, the Tevarans, humanoid extraterrestrial indigenes to the planet. The third main character, Jakob Agat, is a young man in a dwindling colony of Earth humans. Although both populations were genetically engineered by the Hain from Hainish stock, they are not interfertile.
Rolery visits the Earth people's colony. Conflicts between her tribe and the colony follow, just at a time of crisis when cooperation would be most advantageous--especially to Rolery and Agat.
Descendants of the earth human/Trevarian mix would eventually rescue a conquered Earth from alien conquerers who could mind lie - which they used to conquer the telepathic League of All Worlds.

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★ Russian: ''"Планета изгнания"'' ("Planet of Exile"), 1980, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2006