[graemep]

She sticks to some principles. The hainish universe has no FTL travel, which lots of hard sci-fi does. There are people with psychic powers,but that also happens in hard SF. Compare her to Niven, for example

[miyoji]

> the hainish universe has no FTL travel

That's not quite right. There are FTL ships in the Hainish books, but they carry no passengers because living things cannot survive FTL travel.