I read many of Le Guin’s more classic entries in her Hainish Cycle back in college and since then have been fascinated with the world she built for novels like The Disposessed and The Left Hand of Darkness. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea is a series of short stories of which only the last three have anything to do with the universe of the Hainish Cycle. These three all revolve around the development of instantaneous, faster than light travel that Le Guin calls “churten theory” — notabl...
