by Ursula K. Le Guin ; with introd. by Ken MacLeod
- Author(s)
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Publication
- London : Gollancz (Orion), 2015
- Scope
- 144 Pages, illustrated, 19.5 cm.
- Carrier
- novel
- ISBN
- 9781473205789
Science fiction novella by American writer Le Guin, first published in the United States in 1972 as part of the anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, and published as a separate book in 1976. It is part of Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. The story focuses on a military logging colony set up on the fictional planet of Athshe by people from Earth (referred to as "Terra"). The colonists have enslaved the completely non-aggressive native Athsheans, and treat them very harshly. Eventually, one of the natives, whose wife was raped and killed by a Terran military captain, leads a revolt against the Terrans, and succeeds in getting them to leave the planet. However, in the process their own peaceful culture is introduced to mass violence for the first time.
- Keywords
- science fiction , colonisation
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past
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