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

by Ursula K. Le Guin

It is fear that kills.”

In the shadow of total calamity why not set off a firecracker?

it seemed that no man could make his fate or control the game, but only wait for the bright jewel luck to slip by on the wire of time.