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City of Illusions is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It is set on Earth in the distant future, and is part of her Hainish Cycle. City of Illusions lays the foundation for the Hainish cycle which is a fictional universe in which the majority of Ursula K. Le Guin's science fiction novels take place.: 18–19
- Le Guin, K Ursula
- 1967
Ursula Le Guin's City of Illusions begins with an interesting premise, a man with yellow eyes appears deep in the forest of a depopulated future Earth. With no memory of who or what he is, and with those yellow eyes, is he even human?
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Originally published in 1967 by Ace, City of Illusions is not currently in print as a stand-alone novel. It is available in the collections Worlds of Exile and Illusion and Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One.
Searching for his former identity, he must cross the North American continent to the strange city of Es Toch, where the Shing offer to restore his pre-amnesiac personality (Ramarren, ship's navigator of a crucial mission to Earth) at the cost of his hard-won new memories as Falk.
Jun 15, 1984 · by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author) 492. See all formats and editions. Among the thousands of dreamers who arrive in Nevada lured by the prospect of finding gold and silver, Eilley Orrum Hunter Cowan Bowers is determined to become rich and build an empire. Report an issue with this product or seller.
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a quest to Es Toch, the City of the Shing, the Liars of Earth, the Enemy of Mankind. There he would find out the truth about himself…and a universe of danger.
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At the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning science fiction are the Hainish novels and novellas - stories set in our galaxy, whose habitable worlds have been seeded with human life by people from the planet Hain.
