The Word For World Is Forest feels, in many ways, like a reply to Little Fuzzy, published a decade earlier both focus on the use of a planet rich in natural resources being harvested by offworlders, both have furry native species with human-level intelligence whose intellect is believed, by the colonialist forces wanting the aforementioned natural resources, to be far less and both look at how that harvesting of resources without regard for the indigenous inhabitants of the planet could be ended. Le Guin’s The Word For World Is Forest is part of her sprawling, massive science-fiction series The Hainish Cycle each novel can be read on its own, thankfully, since I’ve not read the whole cycle and don’t know where this particular installment fits in with the rest… And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters.ĭesperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered.
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