League of All Worlds
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The League of All Worlds is an alliance of planets, mostly descended from colonization efforts from the planet Hain
, in the fictional Hainish Cycle universe created by the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin
. In the series, it is destroyed by aliens called the Shing
who have the ability to lie in Mindspeech. After the apparent overthrow of the Shing by Terran descendants from Alterra/Werel, the alliance is eventually reconstructed as the Ekumen
.
Hain
Hain may refer to:* Hain, Thuringia, a municipality in Thuringia, Germany.* Hain , a fictional planet in the Hainish or Ekumen novels of Ursula Le Guin* Hain Celestial Group, a natural foods company...
, in the fictional Hainish Cycle universe created by the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
. In the series, it is destroyed by aliens called the Shing
Shing
The Shing are a fictional alien race, in the Hainish Cycle of novels and short stories of the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. They are only explicitly described in City of Illusions, but seem to be the same as the distant but threatening 'enemy' mentioned in Rocannon's World and Planet...
who have the ability to lie in Mindspeech. After the apparent overthrow of the Shing by Terran descendants from Alterra/Werel, the alliance is eventually reconstructed as the Ekumen
Ekumen
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Most of them are not set on the planet Hain, but have it as a distant background...
.