Timeline
Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.
- c.2300 AD - The Dispossessed
- c.2368 AD - The Word for World Is Forest
- c.2684 AD - Rocannon's World
- c.3755 AD - Planet of Exile
- c.4370 AD - City of Illusions
- c.4670 AD - The Left Hand of Darkness
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