Worlds of Exile and Illusion is the remarkable collection of the first three novels ever published by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Now re-issued as a Tor Essential with an original introduction by Amal El-Mohtar.Ursula K. Le Guin's career as a novelist was launched by the three speculative novels contained within this edition. These books, Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness. Tor is pleased to give readers the opportunity to re-discover these seminal novels, now repackaged as a Tor Essential Edition.