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Ursula K. LeGuin - The Ekumen 01 - ROCANNON'S WORLD

ROCANNON'S WORLD

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ekumen 01

Part of this novel appeared in Amazing Stories, Sept. 1964, as a short story, and is copyright, 1964, by Ziff-

Davis Publications Inc.

Scanned & proofed by Binwiped [v1] 10/12/02 released in #bookz by MollyKate

CONTENTS

Prologue

III

VII

VIII

Epilogue

Introduction

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We once wrote that while only a few

women wrote science-fiction they made up

in quality what they lacked in numbers.

Certainly among the ranks of the most

highly esteemed artisans of fantasy fiction

will be found the names of Andre Norton,

Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, Margaret St.

Clair, and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Rocannon's World introduces the first book

by another of that select group, Ursula K.

Le Guin.

Mrs. Le Guin lives in Portland, Oregon,

and has made her first sales to the

magazines. That she has talent will be

evident on reading, for the s-f reader will

find in this vivid interplanetary fantasy

elements reminiscent not only of the

soaring imagery of the above-mentioned

but hints of the fantasy of the Tolkien or

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Merritt type. This may seem extravagant

praise for a beginner, but we hope that the

reader will sense this for himself and wait,

hopefully, for her next novel.

—D. A. W.

Prologue

Contents -Next

How can you tell the legend from the fact

on these 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

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have become the gestures of a god.

Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged

by our lightspeed ships, and in the

darkness uncertainty and disproportion

grow like weeds.

In trying to tell the story of a man, an

ordinary League scientist, who went to

such a nameless half-known world not

many years ago, one feels like an

archeologist amid millennial ruins, now

struggling through choked tangles of leaf,

flower, branch and vine to the sudden

bright geometry of a wheel or a polished

cornerstone, and now entering some

commonplace, sunlit doorway to find

inside it the darkness, the impossible

flicker of a flame, the glitter of a jewel, the

half-glimpsed movement of a woman's

arm.

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How can you tell fact from legend, truth

from truth?

Through Rocannon's story the jewel, the

blue glitter seen briefly, returns. With it let

us begin, here:

Galactic Area 8, No. 62: FOMALHAUT II.

High-Intelligence Life Forms: Species

Contacted:

Species I.

A) Gdemiar (singular Gdem): Highly

intelligent, fully hominoid nocturnal

troglodytes, 120-135 cm. in height, light

skin, dark head-hair. When contacted

these cave-dwellers possessed a rigidly

stratified oligarchic urban society modified

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by partial colonial telephathy, and a

technologically oriented Early Steel

culture. Technology enhanced to

Industrial, Point C, during League Mission

of 252-254. In 254 an Automatic Drive ship

(to-from New South Georgia) was

presented to oligarchs of the Kiriensea

Area corn-munity. Status C-Prime.

B) Füa (singular Fian): Highly intelligent,

fully hominoid, diurnal, av. ca. 130 cm. in

height, observed individuals generally light

in skin and hair. Brief con~ tacts indicated

village and nomadic communal societies,

partial colonial telepathy, also some

indication of short-range TK. The race

appears a-technological and evasive, with

minimal and fluid culture-patterns.

Currently untaxable. Status E-Query.

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Species 11.

Liuar (singular Liu): Highly intelligent, fully

hominoid, diurnal, av. height above 170

cm., this species possesses a

fortress/village, clan-descent society, a

blocked technology (Bronze), and feudal-

heroic culture. Note horizontal social

cleavage into 2 pseudo-races: (a: Olgyior,

"midmen," light-skinned and dark-haired;

(b: Angyar, "lords," very tall, dark-skinned,

yellow-haired—

"That's her," said Rocannon, looking up

from the Abridged Handy Pocket Guide to

Intelligent Life-forms at the very tall, dark-

skinned, yellow-haired woman who stood

halfway down the long museum hall. She

stood still and erect, crowned with bright

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hair, gazing at something in a display

case. Around her fidgeted four uneasy and

unattractive dwarves.

"I didn't know Fomalhaut II had all those

people besides the trogs," said Ketho, the

curator.

"I didn't either. There are even some

"Unconfirmed" species listed here, that

they never contacted. Sounds liketime for

a more thorough survey mission to the

place. Well, now at least we know what

she is."

"I wish there were some way of knowing

who she is…"

She was of an ancient family, a

descendant of the first kings of the Angyar,

and for all her poverty her hair shone with

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the pure, steadfast gold of her inheritance.

The little people, the Füa, bowed when

she passed them, even when she was a

barefoot child running in the fields, the light

and fiery comet of her hair brightening the

troubled winds of Kirien.

She was still very young when Durhal of

Hallan saw her, courted her, and carried

her away from the ruined towers and

windy halls of her childhood to his own

high home. In Hallan on the mountainside

there was no comfort either, though

splendor endured. The windows were

unglassed, the stone floors bare; in

coldyear one might wake to see the night's

snow in long, low drifts beneath each

window. Durhal's bride stood with narrow

bare feet on the snowy floor, braiding up

the fire of her hah: and laughing at her

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young husband in the silver mirror that

hung in their room. That mirror, and his

mother's bridal-gown sewn with a

thousand tiny crystals, were all his wealth.

Some of his lesser kinfolk of Hallan still

possessed wardrobes of brocaded

clothing, furniture of gilded wood, silver

harness for their steeds, armor and silver-

mounted swords, jewels and jewelry—-and

on these last Durhal's bride looked

enviously, glancing back at a gemmed

coronet or a golden brooch even when the

wearer of the ornament stood aside to let

her pass, deferent to her birth and

marriage-rank.

Fourth from the High Seat of Hallan Revel

sat Durhal and his bride Semley, so close

to Hallanlord that the old man often poured

wine for Semley with his own hand, and

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