Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions (Hainish Cycle, #1-3)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

They saw no other living thing. Clear to the sky the high grasslands stretched, level, treeless, roadless, silent. Oppressed by immensity, the two men sat by their tiny fire in the vast dusk, saying nothing.