The Word for World is Forest

A prescient novella about an interstellar logging colony, written by perhaps our greatest practitioner of “literary sci-fi” * Guardian *Its relevance hasn’t decreased in our time of climate catastrophe and gun violence * New York Times *Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society - technological, political, economic - and who fight courageously to remain whole’ * New York Times Book Review *Le Guin’s most pleasing efforts are spent on the Athshean culture: a non-technological forest society with an interesting division of sexual roles and an intense development of the capacity for dreaming * Kirkus Reviews *A funny, humane, heartbreaking story about colonialism – Michael Moreci * Tor.com *It’s a compact tale, a masterclass by a powerful writer who fashions a lean narrative where others might have produced a much larger, bloated tome, and yet for all the brevity Le Guin delivers not just a narrative but a believable alien world and society in short yet compelling scenes. * FORBIDDEN PLANET *The slender book is fairly simplistic, but it’s still compelling and thought-provoking. * SFX *

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

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