City of Illusions

Description

In a far-flung future shaped by the League of Worlds, a lone outsider with amber eyes arrives on Earth carrying both hope and suspicion. As a lie-tormented humanity teeters under the threat of conquest, he must prove—again and again—that he is not a tool of the enemy, even while the world around him refuses to make sense. Following a westward trek through shifting cultures and unsettling encounters, he moves from survival to understanding, where the real battle becomes the search for truth and the work of self-knowledge. With Ursula K. Le Guin’s distinctive, adult-minded science fiction—part adventure, part psychological and semi-mystical inquiry—this novel explores illusion versus reality, the ethics of trust, and what it means to see clearly when everything you’ve been told is breaking apart.