![]() ![]() ![]() In Rocannon's World it is central to the plot. In other tales in the Hainish Cycle, the ansible already exists. In The Word for World is Forest, the newly created ansible is brought to Athshe, a planet being settled by Earth-humans. (The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth Hainish novel published. The story has many themes, as well as the creation of the ansible, an instantaneous communications device that plays a critical role in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. In The Dispossessed, Urras is divided into several states which are dominated by the two largest ones, which are rivals. Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Wind's Twelve Quarters/The Day Before the Revolution. An Anarresti appears in the short story A Fisherman of the Inland Sea/The Shobies' Story. Cetians are mentioned in other Ekumen novels and short stories. The story of The Dispossessed is set on Anarres and Urras, the twin inhabited worlds of Tau Ceti. ![]()
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