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In the ' Ekumen' science fiction stories of Ursula K. Le Guin, Werel is the colloquial name for Alterra, a fictional planet of the star Gamma Draconis. It is one of two planets called Werel in that series. The name is an informal (though standard) one and means just "the world".
Werel is a fictional planet in the ' Ekumen' science fiction novels of Ursula K. Le Guin. It is the fourth planet of a yellow-white star. Its dominant nation, Voe Deo, colonised Yeowe, the previously uninhabited third planet, after contact with the Ekumen. It is one of two planets named Werel in the Hainish cycle.
Usage examples of "werel".
I do not know who I am, who you are, what the Expedition was, what Werel is.
Terra, near the edge of the League heart-zone and the nearest League planet to the new-found planet Werel, had supplied all the colonists on this first ship.
They had only been on Werel five years when they were informed that the Enemy had come, and immediately after that the communications grew confused, contradictory, intermittent, and soon ceased altogether.
Falk steered him back to the history of Werel, filling out with guesses and extrapolation the childish narrative that was all Orry could supply.
Men have taught you what they believe about the history of Earth in the twelve centuries since the Colony on Werel was founded.
And below the Seventh Level, I think, you don't learn the True Name of the World or the True Name of the Sun—they're just the world, Werel, and the sun, prahan.
For a moment, harking back thus to Werel, the boy spoke with a touch of sober resoluteness that he did not show at other times.
Oh, there would be so much we could take back from Earth to Werel, to tell them and teach them, if we could go!
Then they'll send us back to Werel—sole survivors of the great journey, returning after centuries to tell Werel how, on dark barbaric Earth, the Shing bravely hold the torch of civilization alight.
It was not Werel he cared for—for all he knew, his guesses were all astray and Werel itself was a lie, Orry a more elaborate Estrel.
But a hundred and forty years had passed while his light-speed ship had crossed from Werel to Earth and of that he remembered only a moment, indeed, one terrible, eternal moment… What had the madwoman called him, screaming a name at him with crazy, grieving rancor?
And now if Ramarren were to return to Werel it would be yet farther into his own future.
As you say, sir, we had not when I left Werel rediscovered the principles of instantaneous transmission.
Therefore we have been forced to wait for your assistance, before we could attempt ansible contact with Werel, or prepare the coordinates on the ship we have ready for you.
And indeed it was, for if they wanted to know where Werel was they would only have to examine the course he programmed into their ship.