Planet of Exile Author:Ursula K. Le Guin The Earth colony had been stranded on distant Eltanin for six hundred Terrestrial years and 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 nomadic people who only settled down when they burrowed in f... more »or the long cruel cold spell.« less