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

5.0

Science fiction with a profoundly anthropological bent. Colonists from the stars have lived alongside the stone-age oral-culture natives for 600 years on a world where the cycle of seasons lasts two generations. The interactions between the two cultures is carefully drawn and artfully dramatized. Le Guin’s writing is, as always, beautiful and thought provoking. It is a little surprising how traditional the gender roles are here, but this is one of her early novels and it’s not too many books before she’s taking apart and examining gender.