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Original Title:	The Word for World Is Forest
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Hainish Cycle #5
Characters:	Dr. Raj Lyubov - human ecologist, Captain Don Davidson, Selver Thele - Athshean
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award for Best Novella (1973), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novella (1972), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novella (1973)

The Word for World is Forest (Hainish Cycle #5)

Ursula K. Le Guin

ebook | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 15128 Users | 1317 Reviews

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Title	:	The Word for World is Forest (Hainish Cycle #5)
Author	:	Ursula K. Le Guin
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	May 15th 1989 (first published March 17th 1972)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Classics. Novels

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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, planting farms, digging mines & enslaving indigenous peoples. The natives are unequipped to comprehend this. They're a subsistence race who rely on the forests & have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery or war. The invaders take their land without resistance until one fatal act sets rebellion in motion & changes the people of both worlds forever.

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This is not a new premise. Humanity brings devastation to a new colony and destroys the forested world and its inhabitants. We've seen it many times. Avatar comes to mind among others. Ursula Le Guin tells the tale in a unique and interesting way. Her descriptions of the world, the inhabitants and the scenery is great. Chapters are told from different viewpoints and every character has a distinct voice. In fact the change in tone and style and in word choice is amazing to follow. All in all a



"Maybe after I die people will be as they were before I was born, and before you came. But I do not think they will." In every book by Le Guin there is that special something for me, something that grabs a firm hold of my mind and heart and stubbornly hangs on, refusing to let go, burrowing deeply, growing roots, sprouting shoots that will go on to quietly, unobtrusively, almost imperceptibly change my mental landscape forever - by making me really think, by challenging established ideas,

And people still think Avatar had an original concept. (Though I'll admit the visuals are gorgeous)Le Guin did it first, and did it better. The Word for World is Forest is heartwrenchingly beautiful, all the more for its continued relevence nearly half a century since first publication. Her introduction to this edition is also exquisite, and discusses not only the need and reasoning behind the writing of this story, but also the need for the creation of any such story."The pursuit of art, by

Have you seen Cameron's movie "Avatar"? This reads like a precursor: The forest, natives (though green instead of blue and a quarter of their size), one bad asshole of a military captain, the ultimate surrender of the colony. Even the lucid dreaming of the native Athsheans has its counterpart by the connectness and the Avatar's tree.LeGuins literary style with the very slow and introspective parts are quite typical. Every time, I read a work from her, something touches my soul and stays with me

Devastating. I continue to be astounded by the depths of feeling, wisdom, and truth that Le Guin was able to unearth in her work. This was in many ways the most brutal of her books that Ive read, but it is still filled with a terrible beauty and even some hope.

I had to sit with this one a bit before reviewing. A hard-hitting look at imperialism, humanity and the appropriate use of violence, once again Le Guin manages to distill everything into a perfect clarity that is at once easy to follow and vastly complex.CONTENT WARNING: (no actual spoilers, just a list of topics) (view spoiler)[mentions of graphic rape, slavery, genocide, graphic violence, casual racism and sexism. (hide spoiler)]Things to love:The writing. As usual, Le Guin is absolutely