Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born 1929) is one of the brightest stars in the firmament of modern American literature. Continuing the traditions of DR. R. Tolkien and R. Bradbury, she is equally proficient in two genres so beloved in our time - fantasy and science fiction. One of the best creations of her imagination is Eikumena, the League of Worlds, a voluntary union of all intelligent beings of the Universe. The forms of intelligent life are infinitely diverse, but even in the most remote corners of the Cosmos, the inhabitants of unknown planets are waiting for Contact, mutual understanding, love - this is the main idea of novels, novels and short stories about Eykumen. Winged cats and interstellar ships, superluminal weapons and ancient swords, crazy blind angels and “word eaters”, underground forges and sun elves, a young king and a middle-aged ethnographer, a fragile girl - a messenger and a wise old woman - this is who inhabits the first volume of the chronicles of Eikumene. And in the second we will talk about our own planet, its future, about the great discoveries, disasters and hopes of the Earth, one of the links in the “Necklace of the Planets of the Ecumene.”