Planet of Exile

I read Planet of Exile immediately after reading City of Illusions. The protagonist in City of Illusions is a descendent of the protagonist in Planet of Exile. There is virtually no other connection between the two books. My notion that the reading order of the books in Ursula K Le Guin's so-called Hainish Cycle doesn't matter, remains intact.

Planet of Exile is a story of tribal customs and culture, and primitive warfare. Rather than being typical of science fiction novels, it put me in mind of Things Fall Apart, a story of native African culture influenced by British colonialism, by Chinua Achebe.