He’s a full-grown guy, alone within a dense forest, with no trail showing where he has result from and no storage to show who or what he’s. His eyes aren’t the eyes of a human. The forest people consider him in and raise him, teaching him to speak, training him in the knowledge and lore from the forest, however they cannot resolve the riddle of his past. At last, he sets from a perilous quest to discover his accurate self-and discovers a universe of danger.

City of Illusions is a part of the acclaimed Hainish Cycle, set in a galaxy colonized thousands of years ago by a variety of humanoid varieties. Since the golden age of the League of All Worlds, Earth, just like the remaining known worlds, provides fallen towards the Shing, who rule through subtle brain control. Scattered groups of humans endure in circumstances of paranoia and semibarbarism. Is there person who can stand against the Shing?