Ursula K. LeGuin
Rocannon's World

Rocannon was a Terran scientist on Fomalhaut II one moment, the sole survivor of his crew fleeing the vicious attack of the invaders from Faraday the next.

Marooned among the humanoids of this alien planet - the cave-dwelling Gdemiar, the elvish Fiia and the warrior Liuar - he had to find some way to fight back. 

Rallying the primitive natives around him, Rocannon set out to prove that technology was no match for courage and love of freedom.

PLANET OF EXILE

The Earth colony has been stranded on distant Eltanin for six hundred Terrestrial years and the lonely and dwindling human settlement was feeling the strain.  Every winter - as season which lasted for fifteen of our years - the Earthmen had neighbors.  These were the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settled down when they burrowed in for the long cruel cold spell.

Yet the hilfs feared the Earthmen, whom they thought of as the farborns, and their fear kept the lost colony lonely.  Nevertheless both hilfs and farborns had common enemies: the hordes of ravaging barbarian Gaals and the eerie preying snowshouls.  And in the last terrible winter, the only hope of hilf and farborn was to join forces or be annihilated.

PLANET OF EXILE is by the author of THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS and displays the same planet-creating brilliance that won its author the highest awards of science fiction writing.

Ursula K. LeGuin
City of Illusions

Scattered over the earth, small isolated settlements of humanity lived in a state of semi-barbarity; the knowledge and skills, the glory that had been Terra's in the golden age of the League of Worlds lost to ruthless conquerors.

Each time a group of Earthmen began to rise fom the ashes, the Shing, the ravagers of Terra, the Liars, would crush them out.

Only one man could stand against them, and that man had alien amber eyes.  Before he dared oppose the enemy he had to prove his humanity, and to himself that he was not a tool of the Shing....

Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand
of Darkness

Not since DUNE has a science fiction novel generated as much enthusiasm and excitement as THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS.  Discover for yourself this thought-provoking tale of an alien planet where all the people are of one sex, and the lone earthman is forced into a subtle planetary intrigue where he is the pawn and his future is the prize.

"Anybody who can write a novel like this has my respect and admiration." - DAMON KNIGHT

"As profuse and original an invention as THE LORD OF THE RINGS." - MICHAEL MORCOCK

"What got to me was the quality of the story-telling.  She's taken the mythology, psychology - the entire creative surround - and woven it into a jewel of a story." - FRANK HERBERT