The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish …
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggresion. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We've followed our road too far...
— Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Novels & Stories, #1) (Page 402)
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