Ursula K. Le Guin: Rocannon's World (1984, Ace Books)
144 pages
English language
Published Nov. 1, 1984 by Ace Books.
Rocannon's World is a science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, her literary debut. It was published in 1966 as an Ace Double, along with Avram Davidson's The Kar-Chee Reign, following the tête-bêche format. Though it is one of Le Guin's many works set in the universe of the technological Hainish Cycle, the story itself has many elements of heroic fantasy. The hero Gaveral Rocannon encounters lords who live in castles and wield swords, and other races much like fairies and gnomes, in his travels on a backward planet. The word "ansible" for a faster-than-light communicator, was coined in the novel. The term has since been widely used in science fiction.
Comme c'est une véritable découverte : de cette histoire de science fiction, de l'auteure et de tout cet univers; le début de ma lecture a été un peu laborieux car j'ai dû me familiariser avec le vocabulaire spécifique à cette ambiance stellaire. Après ça... c'était que du plaisir et je me réjouis de lire la suite.
