![]() ![]() (Sorry, gang!)īasic plot: It's the future, humans are one humanoid race among several, and humans have colonial rights on Athshe, or World 41, which is about 27 years travel from Earth. For Le Guin and The Word for World Is Forest, though, it seems I've made an exception, and my students are just going to have to be okay with that. And for a teacher as hopeless as I am at keeping up with my reading, even when I'm at leisure, the first weeks of September are NOT the time that I tend to read compulsively for fun. I was grabbed immediately by this novel, firmly, and I finished it the evening of the day I bought it. I mean, come on - Kubrick accepts anachronism in Full Metal Jacket just so a copy of the novel can be on a bedside table five years before its actual publication date?īut no way am I pushing back. And sure, it's been respected for long enough that maybe it's time to push back against this novel. Sure, as other reviewers will tell you, the novel's setup and conceptual framework were deeply mined for Avatar. ![]() ![]() At 180 pages of text, in many ways it's like a haiku, an aphorism, an epigraph: you know what's there without her having to tell you about it. Le Guin's early-70s novel The Word for World Is Forest, but it's shocking how much she's jammed into it. ![]() It's a slim and seemingly light volume, Ursula K. ![]()
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