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S.F. MASTERWORKS Philip K. Dick Collection 5 Books Set (A Scanner Darkly, Martian Time-Slip, Ubik, The Word for World is Forest, Valis) by Le Guin, Ursula K is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Word for World Is Forest is a sf novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in '76, based on a '72 Hainish Cycle novella. Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society. Humans have learned interstellar travel from the Hainish (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including Athsheans). Various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it's learned that the League of All Worlds has been formed. News arrives via an ansible, a new discovery. Previously they had been cut off, 27 light years from home. The story occurs after The Dispossessed, where both the ansible & the League of Worlds are unrealised. Also well before Planet of Exile, where human settlers have learned to coexist. The 24th century has been suggested. Terran colonists take over the planet locals call Athshe, meaning "forest," rather than "dirt," like their home planet Terra. They follow the 19th century model of colonization: felling trees,

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Author

Le Guin, Ursula K

Publisher

Tor Books

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611293180

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction