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	Ekumen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ekumen worlds are some dozens of planets populated millions of years ago by human beings from the original human world of Hain.
		In her stories of the Ekumen, Le Guin frequently uses the word "hilf" which is an acronym for highly intelligent lifeform, a member of a given planet's native human race.
		The Ekumen stories tell of the renewal of interstellar travel and communication and the efforts to re-establish a galactic "federation".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ekumen (914 words)

	Ekumen
		Ekumen is the fictional galactic federation of human-inhabited worlds mentioned in several of the science fiction novels of Ursula K. Le Guin.
		The Ekumen stories tell of the renewal of interplanetary travel and communication and the efforts to re-establish a galactic "federation".
		Especially notable (award-winning) Ekumen novels include The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ur/Ursula_K._Le_Guin___Ekumen.html (142 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her writing often makes use of unusual alien cultures to convey a message about our own culture; one example is the exploration of sexual identity through the hermaphroditic race in The Left Hand of Darkness.
		In this loose background scenario, the human species originated on the planet Hain in the distant past, near the galactic center.
		A number of Le Guin's works including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Word for World is Forest deal with the consequences of the arrival of Ekumen envoys (known as "mobiles") on these remote planets and the culture shock that ensues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ursula_Le_Guin (1468 words)

	Donald F. Theall- The Art of Social-Science Fiction: The Ambiguous Utopian Dialectics of Ursula K. Le Guin
		Further, the broader background of the interplanetary organization of the Ekumen is an "ideal" model with implicit criticisms of contemporary intercommunication between nations.
		This justifies the Ekumen's sending a single Mobile to first encounter a new society, as a means of having him learn to establish genuine relations with its inhabitants.
		The Ekumen as an instrument of education is an instrument of communication, a way towards interplanetary wisdom.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/7/theall7art.htm (5099 words)

	The Left Hand of Darkness \| Classic Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		His job is to introduce the icy planet of Gethen into the Ekumen, a loose consortium of 80 worlds that trade in knowledge as well as goods.
		He is the Ekumen's first open envoy, and the first envoy always goes alone.
		He offers Gethen a single voice describing the friends to be had among the stars, and he travels among the local people, learning what hidden observers cannot.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/classic/sfw4498.html (645 words)

	The Ekumen is the fictional galactic federation of human inhabited worlds...
		The "Ekumen" is the fictional galactic federation of human-inhabited worlds mentioned in several of the science fiction science fiction novels of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin.
		The Ekumen stories tell of the renewal of interplanetary travel and communication communication and the efforts to re-establish a galactic "federation".
		Especially notable (award-winning) Ekumen novels are "The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed The Dispossessed".
	www.biodatabase.de /Ekumen (323 words)

	The Birthday of the World: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /t/the_birthday_of_the_world (766 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Queen of Quinkdom
		But in the Ekumen universe, although there is much strangeness, there is no magic, apart from the magic inherent in creation itself.
		Now, a benevolent federation called the Ekumen having been established, explorers are being sent out to see what has become of these far-flung but still hominid or perhaps even human societies.
		On the planet of Werel, slavers and anti-slavers are at war, and sex among the slavers is a matter of raping the field hands.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15677 (3607 words)

	Ekumen: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /e/ekumen (1116 words)

	The SF Site: A Conversation With Ursula K. Le Guin
		A striking contrast between the original Earthsea and Ekumen novels and their recent successors is the latter's move from action to observation: The Telling and The Other Wind are contemplative and discursive rather than plot-driven.
		The fate of Earth in the Ekumen series is not exactly apocalyptic, but quite bleak, blighted, and theocratic, as hinted in The Dispossessed and shown in more detail in "Dancing to Ganam" and The Telling.
		Dark visions of a theocratic world have been fuelled by the rise, during the last two or three decades, of the fundamentalist side of every world religion, and the willingness of many people to believe that fundamentalism is religion.
	www.sfsite.com /03a/ul123.htm (3598 words)

	Le Guin's World - Encyclopedia: Basic Dictionary
		The Ekumen send "Mobiles" to other worlds, while the "Stabiles" are stationed on planets.
		The cultural embargo is a part of the rules for the terran coloninists.
		When the Ekumen send a ship to a new planet, the First Mobile descends to the planet, while the others remain in stasis.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/e_basic.html (765 words)

	Left Hand of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling." This is why when Ai invited the kingdom of Karhide to join the Ekumen the king was afraid.
		The facts were the same for Ai and king Argaven: the Ekumen had 83 habitable planets and 3,000 nations, but their interpretations were radically different.
		Although Estraven was exiled from Karhide, the plan he told to Ai soon brought Karhide into the Ekumen, which both Ai and Estraven thought was good.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~pdorman/works/Darkness.html (227 words)

	The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		On her first assignment as a representative of the Ekumen, Observer Sutty Bass is sent from Earth to the planet of Aka to research its history and culture.
		Rather, she is interested in exploring human relationships and emotions, and the setup of her Ekumen universe allows her to place humans on alien worlds to see how they react.
		It may be dull at times, but it is still a worthy addition to the Ekumen series, and it is a tribute to Le Guin that such a novel can be considered one of her lesser efforts.
	www.thealienonline.net /ao_060.asp?baa=1&tid=2&scid=14&iid=1825 (768 words)

	The Telling
		Still, technically it belongs in the Hainish or Ekumen universe, which Le Guin has returned to a number of times during her long writing career.
		The Observers from the Ekumen are of course interested in discovering what is behind the facade.
		Since the Ekumen has a "no interference" policy, they can't just use force to achieve their goal.
	www.fantasyfreaks.org /reviews/mike/telling.html (897 words)

	Review: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Telling: A Celebration of Daily Life, reviewed by Christopher Cobb
		Her novels have examined the impact of technology on culture and the influences of culture on human character.
		Representatives of the Ekumen travel to worlds with peoples of Hainish descent to learn about them and to invite them to participate in the culture of the Ekumen, if they wish.
		The burning question, for Sutty and for the novel, is how she and the Ekumen might help to save this culture whose destruction was inadvertently precipitated by the Ekumen's arrival on Aka.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010101/the_telling.shtml (1721 words)

	The Outer Rim: The Review - Paper Cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The Ekumen has a policy of sending only one representative on outreach missions such as this one.
		One can move about in a society as a curiosity and, hopefully, bring the Ekumen's message of interplanatial peace and co-operation to a new world.
		Genly Ai soon realizes that the Ekumen, in all of its wisdom, never considered a world so far away from all other inhabitable worlds that the thought of beings living off of its own planet -- out in the "Void" as they name space -- is ludicrous.
	outer-rim.lweb.net /review/48papercuts2.html (947 words)

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		In The Left Hand of Darkness, the first Envoy from Ekumen, Genly Ai, cannot make true observations of the Gethen society, because the Ekumen culture where he came from comprises his identity and blocks his vision toward the reality.
		Because Estraven symbolizes Ai’s true success of his mission in an individual level, as well as his new identity in the Gethenian culture, to lose Estraven means the same thing to Ai as to be bereaved of his own identity and to fail the mission individually.
		Genly Ai, an Ekumen anthropologist and the first Envoy in the Gethenian society, ultimately loses his identity as the representative of Ekumen culture, although he successfully accomplishes his official mission.
	home.uchicago.edu /~jungsil/leguin.html (1852 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin: The Telling - Fantastic Reviews book review
		Sutty has had to suffer not only from persecution at the hands of the fundamentalists in power, in part due to her sexual orientation, but also terrorism orchestrated by fundamentalists not in power.
		She is sent as an observer to Aka, an underdeveloped world with which the Ekumen has recently established contact.
		While she is in transit, however, Aka undergoes a dramatic upheaval, triggered by its exposure to galactic society.
	www.geocities.com /fantasticreviews/telling_leguin.htm (1053 words)

	Fiction Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This book consists of a series of four linked novellas about the planets Werel and Yeowe, and the struggle of people there to put their history of slavery and war behind them.
		The four stories take various aspects of the gradual breakdown of this slave culture as seen through the eyes of natives of the two worlds, and offworld members of the Ekumen, who are gradually trying to influence the cultures towards more civilised mores.
		Werel seeks recognition to the Ekumen, Le Guin's form of pan-galactic civilisation, whilst Yeowe seeks merely to be free of the former oppressor.
	www.concatenation.org /frev/fourways.html (476 words)

	Rocannon's World - TheBestLinks.com - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ekumen, Planet of Exile, ...
		Rocannon's World, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed, Ekumen, Planet of Exile...
		This book is one of Le Guin's many stories based in the universe of the Ekumen.
		The novel begins with a prologue called "Semley's Necklace", which was previously published as a stand-alone story.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Rocannon__27__s_World.html (242 words)

	Aspects
		The Ekumenical Convention succeed, after centuries of hard work, to pacify, to unify and to create a buffer zone of relative tranquility around the Pax Corporativa.
		When this unification takes place, the cultural assimilation is so strong that the Ekumen worlds considered themselves as part of the Corporation, with their own peculiarities.
		From time to time this progressive unification is accelerated by some war, like the military conquests of the empire of Algol, but usually the wars in the limits of the Ekumen retard cultural and commercial assimilation.
	www.ual.es /personal/egallego/as-eng.htm (4317 words)

	Echoes of earth on Le Guin's farflung planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		This time, Le Guin has taken on the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution and its frightening, authoritarian attempt to erase the past, the dangers of religious fundamentalism, colonialism and the acceptance — or not — of homosexuals.
		Sutty, a Terran woman of East Indian descent, becomes a diplomat for the Ekumen — a group of civilized planets connected through Hain, whose people long ago planted the seeds of intelligent life on each — after her lesbian lover is killed by fundamentalist terrorists on Earth.
		As with the best of Le Guin's Ekumen novels, "The Telling" is as much about our world and politics as it is about an alien planet.
	www.bouldernews.com /community/stories/03etell.html (481 words)

	THE EKUMEN: URSULA K. LE GUIN NEWS
		Since it looks like I'll only be updating this once or twice a year, I'm going to just focus on the big stuff (recent and forthcoming releases, etc.) If you want fine detailed news, come join The Ekumen online community, where 100+ members keep track of (and discuss) just about every i that UKL dots.
		A new Ekumen novel that offers a pointed and thoughtful critique of global corporate culture while examining the interplay between politics, religion and culture.
		At times it borders on the didactic, but its heart is always in the right place; UKL's keen insight into human behavior and relationships keeps it grounded, and her sly digs at Starbucks are deliciously amusing.
	www.ocelotfactory.com /leguin/news.html (528 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin: The Birthday of the World
		This rather suddenly morphs into the Ekumen, a non-directive, information-gathering consortium of worlds, which occasionally disobeys its own directive to be non-directive.
		In "Solitude" I went out on the fringes of the Ekumen, to a place somewhat like the Earth we used to write about in the sixties and seventies when we believed in Atomic Holocaust and the End of The World as We Know It and mutants in the glowing ruins of Peoria.
		It takes place in another universe, also a well-used one: the generic, shared, science-fiction "future." In this version of it, Earth sends forth ships to the stars at speeds that are, according to our present knowledge, more or less realistic, at least potentially attainable.
	www.ursulakleguin.com /BirthdayWorldIntro.html (2026 words)

	John's Book Reviews: The Left Hand of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Many worlds, seeded by a parent race of humans, are now unified in a loose confederation called the Ekumen.
		Genly Ai, an envoy of the Ekumen has been on the planet Gethen for the past two years, gently encouraging the native humans to join the union of worlds.
		LeGuin is a most imaginitive author, and uses her science fiction for a higher purpose, exploring and inventing situations that leave us curious and thoughtful.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~jmcd/book/revs2/lhod.html (385 words)

	Ursula K Le Guin
		The story that introduces us to the Ekumen or The League and what they're about.
		Rocannon is a League Mobile who comes to the planet Fomalhaut II and is stranded alone when The League's enemy destroy his ship and his coleagues.
		The enemy is also attacking the native peoples, and Rocannon sets out with a small band of the locals to find and destroy them.
	www.didgethings.co.uk /artyfarty/ursula.htm (766 words)

	Chapter 15: Hainish Universe Revisited
		At the Ekumenical school he has a love affair, fails to follow his new beloved to Terra, and goes to Yeowe to serve as a Sub-Envoy under "a clever young Terran named Solly," the Ambassador (118)-Solly Agat Terwa, from "Forgiveness Day" (91-92).
		And here Solly delivers her line about how the Ekumen was to offer a way, openings, not bar peoples because they have practices the Ekumen finds evil and dangerous.
		Batikam can tell the Ekumenical embassy staff "that a Patriot group has rescued the Envoy and is holding her safe, in hiding, in extreme danger.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /sfra/Coyote/hainish.htm (17695 words)

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