Rocannon's World
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Rocannon is part of a survey team on an unnamed planet orbiting Formalhaut II where four different intelligent species have developed. All the other members on Rocannon's team have been killed by people from the Faraday system who have installed a secret military base with the intent on conquering planets from the interstellar League of All Worlds. With the enemy now controlling the only means of contacting the League, Rocannon wants to reach the base and use their ansible to reveal the location of the base. Rocannon travels on the back of windsteeds, by boat and walking, in the company of members of the Angyar culture of the Liuar species, on the northern continent. They meet with a members of the Fiia who guides the for a while, are made prisoner by cave-dwelling Gdemiar who wants to burn Rocannon (he survives thanks to his high-tech protective suit) and by the Winged Ones. The latter, a hive society, have captured them to feed on them, and they manage to escape only thanks to the Kiemhrir. In the mountains near his goal, Rocannon encounters an entity that gives him a form of telepathy. He finally reaches the enemy' base and contacts the League, leading soon after in its destruction; having felt telepathically the hundreds of deaths of his enemies, Rocannon feels guilty and is traumatized. Rocannon then retires among the Angyar of the southern continent, waiting for rescuers from the League. However, as humans cannot survive FTL travel, he has to wait at least eight years for anyone to reach him and dies before they arrive, not knowing the planet is now named after him.
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