Volume 5: Four Ways To Forgiveness; Old Music and the Slave Woman; The Telling; Solitude; The Matter of Seggri; Unchosen Love; Mountain Ways; The Birthday of the World

EHtot sbornik — eshche neskol'ko mirov-zhemchuzhin iz ozherel'ya planet EHkumeny, iz proslavlennogo Hajnskogo cikla, sozdannogo neprevzojdennym fantastom-demiurgom. V predstavlennyh zdes' proizvedeniyah Le Guin uglublenno issledovala temy futuristicheskogo rabstva ("CHetyre puti k proshcheniyu" i "Muzyka Bylogo i rabyni"), uskoreniya tekhnicheskogo progressa cenoj gibeli tradicionnyh kul'tur ("Tolkovateli"), upadka samoizoliruyushchihsya civilizacij ("Odinochestvo") i ryad drugih, ne menee ...