 First Edition Hardback Cover | |
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Victor Stabin |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Published | 2000 (Harcourt) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 264 |
| Awards | Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2001) |
| ISBN | 0-15-100567-2 |
| OCLC | 43662164 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3562.E42 T45 2000 |
| Preceded by | Four Ways to Forgiveness |
The Telling is a 2000 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her fictional universe of Hainish Cycle. The Telling is Le Guin's first follow-up novel set in the Hainish Cycle since her 1974 novel The Dispossessed. It tells the story of Sutty, a Terran sent to be an Ekumen observer, on the planet Aka, and her experiences of political and religious conflicts between a corporatist government and the indigenous resistance, which is centered on the traditions of storytelling, locally referred to as "the Telling" (for which the book is named).