As the story begins he must develop a new self-identity ex nihilo. Prior to the opening scene, the main character, who is a descendant of the protagonists in Planet of Exile, has been involved in a ship crash, and since the Shing do not believe in killing, has had his memory erased and been abandoned in the forest this leaves his mind as a blank slate or tabula rasa. The ability to lie during mindspeech is unique to the Shing. In contrast, innately truthful telepathy, which is the only form of telepathy available to human beings, is known as mindspeech. The Shing control the human population by using various strategies of indirect manipulation, which include divide and rule, as well as deceptive telepathic mental projection, known as mind-lying. The indigenous inhabitants of Earth have been reduced to small communities that are widely separated, living in highly independent rural communes, or in nomadic tribes. : 18–19 Plot introduction Ĭity of Illusions takes place on Earth, also known as Terra, in the future, twelve hundred years after an enemy named the Shing has broken up the defunct League of All Worlds and taken up residence on Earth. Le Guin's science fiction novels take place. City of Illusions lays the foundation for the Hainish cycle which is a fictional universe in which the majority of Ursula K. It is set on Earth in the distant future, and is part of her Hainish Cycle. City of Illusions is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K.
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