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. People from Hain are often present but mostly as secondary characters.
In keeping with Le Guin's soft science fiction style, the setting is used primarily to explore anthropological and sociological ideas.
Notable and award-winning Hainish novels are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. The short novel The Word for World is Forest and the short story "The Day Before the Revolution" have also won awards.
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