Planet of Exile Author:Ursula K. LeGuin The Eart colony had been stranded on distant Eltanin for six hundred Terrestial years adn the lonely and dwindling human settlement was feeling the strain. Every winter, a season which lasted for fifteen of our years, the Earthmen had neighbors. These were the humanoid hilfs, a nomandic people who only settled down when the burrowed in for the l... more »ong cruel cold spell. Yet the hilf feared he Earthmen, whom they thought of as farborns, and their fear kept the colony lonely. Both hilfs and farborn had common enemies, the hordes of ravaging barbarian Gaals and the eerie preying snowghouls. In the last terrible winter, the only hope of hilf and farborn was to join forces or be annihilated.« less