Horizons ed. R. Silverberg. Another story in the same dual-planet system of Werel and Yeowe as Four Ways to Forgiveness of the Ekumen. Set later in time than the stories in that volume, when the "assets" of Voe Deo on Werel are fighting a war to gain freedom from the "owners". "The Birthday of the World" – June 2000 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story depicts a society where the hereditary rulers are "God", and how the society is disrupted from inside and outside. The situation has parallels to that of Incan civilization and the coming of the Europeans. "Paradises Lost" – First publication. Not part of the Ekumen series, it is a story of a group of humans undertaking a journey to a distant planet to discover the possibilities of habitability. The journey takes several generations, and is told from the perspective of people that have grown up aboard the ship and its unique society, having known only the ship. References External links "Mountain Ways"; full story at clarkesworld Short story collections by Ursula K. Le Guin 2002 short story collections Hainish Cycle HarperCollins books