r/bookclub • u/IraelMrad Marius Hater #1 | 🐉|🥇|🧠💯 • Jan 25 '26
Hainish Cycle series [Schedule] (Bonus Read) Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Are you ready to follow the journey of a scientist meeting a whole new world? I hope you are, because we are starting the read soon!
A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned among alien peoples, he leads the battle to free this new world - and finds that legends grow around him even as he fights.
Each book of the series can be read as a standalone, so if you would like to join for this read you are more than welcome, even if you haven’t read the previous books!
Still, in case you need them, here you can find the previous discussions:
And here is a link for the series Marginalia if you would like to see what the tentative reading order looks like!
Schedule
- Feb 14 - Beginning - Chapter 4 u/Mansjuri
- Feb 21 - Chapter 5 - end u/IraelMrad
- Feb 28 - Short story "Vaster than Empires and more Slow" u/Mansjuri
I will see you there!
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u/fixtheblue Read, ergo sum | 🐫🐉🥈||🧠🥈 Jan 25 '26
I've just bought the entire collection so I am definitely in!
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u/Manjusri Earl of Earthsea Feb 14 '26
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u/Manjusri Earl of Earthsea Mar 01 '26
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u/sunnydaze7777777 Flair Master 🐉 Jan 25 '26
This has been added to our bookclub calendar!
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=redditbookclubcalendar@gmail.com&ctz=Etc/GMT