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Mindspeech is an advanced form of telepathy practiced by the advanced intelligent beings in the League of All Worlds in the Hainish Cycle of novels and short stories by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin. Mindspeech was first learned by Rocannon an ethnologist from the planet New South Georgia of the League of All Worlds on the world called in his honor Rokanan. Two of the races on Rokanan have indigenous telepathy and from one of them Rocannon learns the skill himself, and later it spreads throughout the League. One axiom held to be undeniable was that it is not possibly to lie through mindspeech, however the alien Enemy of the League, the Shing are able to mindlie and use that ability to infiltrate and eventually destroy the League.
Mindspeech is not mentioned again in any of the novels Le Guin wrote after The Left Hand of Darkness, apart from the short story "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow".
Works by Ursula K. Le Guin – (bibliography) Earthsea "The Word of Unbinding" (1964) · "The Finder" (2001) · "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) · "The Rule of Names" (1964) · "The Bones of the Earth" (2001) · A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) · The Tombs of Atuan (1971) · "On the High Marsh" (2001) · The Farthest Shore (1972) · Tehanu (1990) · "Earthsea Revisioned" (1993) · "Dragonfly" (1997) · Tales from Earthsea (2001) · The Other Wind (2001)Hainish Cycle "Dowry of the Angyar" (1964) · Rocannon's World (1966) · Planet of Exile (1966) · City of Illusions (1967) · The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) · "Winter's King" (1969) · "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" (1971) · The Dispossessed (1974) · "The Day Before the Revolution" (1974) · The Word for World is Forest (1976) · "The Shobies' Story" (1990) · "Dancing to Ganam" (1993) · "Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea" (1994) · "The Matter of Seggri" (1994) · "Unchosen Love" (1994) · "Solitude" (1994) · Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995) · "Coming of Age in Karhide" (1995) • "Mountain Ways" (1996) · "Old Music and the Slave Women" (1999) · The Telling (2000)Other fiction
(novels bold)The Lathe of Heaven (1971) · The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) · Orsinian Tales (1976) · The Eye of the Heron (1978) · Malafrena (1979) · The Beginning Place (1980) · The Compass Rose (1982) · Always Coming Home (1985) · Buffalo Gals, and Other Animal Presences (1987) · Searoad (1991) · A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (1994) · Unlocking the Air and Other Stories (1996) · The Birthday of the World (2002) · Changing Planes (2003) · Lavinia (2008)Nonfiction The Language of the Night (1979) · Dancing at the Edge of the World (1982) · Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (1997) · Steering the Craft (1998) · The Wave in the Mind (2004)Categories:- Ekumen
- Works by Ursula K. Le Guin
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