A review by aaronwhite
Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced

3.75

Part of the Hainish cycle. Human colonists have landed on a planet that has 15 year summers, 15 year winters. The colonists have been stranded on the planet for so long, and don’t know if they will ever reconnect with the League of Planets. Their numbers are dwindling as they cannot bear children on the planet, and the native humanoid populations do not consider them human. The story is one of survival and adaptation, and it takes a little while to get into but then really takes off.