The Word for World Is Forest
The Word for World Is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin ; with introd. by Ken MacLeod

Auteur(s)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Uitgever
London : Gollancz (Orion), 2015
Omvang
144 p., geïllustreerd, 19.5 cm.
Drager
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.


Trefwoorden
science fiction , colonisation
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 30 - 1: Slavernij en Kolonialisme ; Facing up to the Past