Worlds of Exile and Illusion is an audiobook by Ursula K. Le Guin, narrated by Michael Crouch and Alyssa Bresnahan. The unabridged Audible edition runs 16 hrs 38 mins.
Publisher’s Summary
Three remarkable journeys into the stars
Worlds of Exile and Illusion includes Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions.
These three spacefaring adventures mark the beginning of grand master Ursula K. Le Guin’s remarkable career. Set in the same universe as Le Guin’s groundbreaking classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these first three books of the celebrated Hainish series follow travelers of many worlds and civilizations in the depths of space.
The novels collected here are the first three ever published by Le Guin, a frequent winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time.
“What an immense imagination, what a strong and trenchant mind.”—Margaret Atwood
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch and Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 16 hrs 38 mins
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Release year: 2024
- Audible category: Literature & Fiction / World Literature / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Listener Ratings
Worlds of Exile and Illusion holds an average listener rating of 4.4/5 from 103 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.5/5
- Story: 4.5/5
- 5-star ratings: 63% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
4/5 stars — “Pretty good.”
Pretty good story. Got a little hard to follow / dream sequencey at times but wrapped up nicely— Adam, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Missed Edit”
Chapter 9, City Of Illusions: at 44:15, you hear Michael Crpuch say "I think we can keep that one." 😄— Oinkubus Rex, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Tao in SciFi “
As all great fiction does, these books reflect the eternality of life and the human condition. How can one know what one should do? How one shoukd act? When met with adversity will you overcome it, survive it? What of your friends and loved ones? In a grand winding tale of a war beyond comprehension, won as it is lost, Leguin carves a tale from the cosmos which brings high fantasy to science fiction, and peoplehood to many worlds.Also in Chapter 9 of City of Illusion there is a remnant narrator comment that didn’t get edited out.
— Jacob Seidel, Audible listener
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