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

by Ursula K. Le Guin

At this point whatever we do, any of us, alone or together, is wrong. We can’t do the right thing, the lucky thing. We can only go on committing suicide, little by little, one by one. Till we’re all gone, till Alterra is gone, all the exiles dead …