CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>The Word for World Is Forest - Wikipedia</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy", "wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"3cd9424e-03cb-427f-8aa2-025898090531","wgCanonicalNamespace":"","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest","wgTitle":"The Word for World Is Forest","wgCurRevisionId":1258870815,"wgRevisionId":1258870815,"wgArticleId":1426168,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Articles with short description","Short description is different from Wikidata","Good articles","1976 science fiction novels","1976 American novels","Again, Dangerous Visions short stories","Fiction portraying humans as aliens","Hainish Cycle","Hugo Award for Best Novella–winning works","Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin","Environmental fiction books","Pastoral science fiction","Novels about rape","Anti-war novels","Forest planets in fiction", "Novels about colonialism","Novels set on fictional planets"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest","wgRelevantArticleId":1426168,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":false,"wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1}}},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsFlags":0,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":false,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":50000,"wgRelatedArticlesCompat":[],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgULSPosition":"interlanguage","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":false, "wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":true,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q2447776","wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"GEHomepageSuggestedEditsEnableTopics":true,"wgGETopicsMatchModeEnabled":false,"wgGEStructuredTaskRejectionReasonTextInputEnabled":false,"wgGELevelingUpEnabledForUser":false};RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.cite.styles":"ready","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready","jquery.makeCollapsible.styles":"ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.interlanguage":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["ext.cite.ux-enhancements","mediawiki.page.media", "ext.scribunto.logs","site","mediawiki.page.ready","jquery.makeCollapsible","mediawiki.toc","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.ReferenceTooltips","ext.gadget.switcher","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.popups","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.interface","ext.cx.eventlogging.campaigns","ext.cx.uls.quick.actions","wikibase.client.vector-2022","ext.checkUser.clientHints","ext.growthExperiments.SuggestedEditSession","wikibase.sidebar.tracking"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.cite.styles%7Cext.uls.interlanguage%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cjquery.makeCollapsible.styles%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.4"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/WordWorldForest.jpg"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1747"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/WordWorldForest.jpg"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="800"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1165"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="640"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="932"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="The Word for World Is Forest - Wikipedia"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikipedia (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest rootpage-The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Main menu </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigation </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z">Main page</a></li><li id="n-contents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Guides to browsing Wikipedia">Contents</a></li><li id="n-currentevents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Articles related to current events">Current events</a></li><li id="n-randompage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Visit a randomly selected article [x]" accesskey="x">Random article</a></li><li id="n-aboutsite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Learn about Wikipedia and how it works">About Wikipedia</a></li><li id="n-contactpage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us" title="How to contact Wikipedia">Contact us</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-interaction" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-interaction" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Contribute </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents" title="Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia">Help</a></li><li id="n-introduction" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Learn how to edit Wikipedia">Learn to edit</a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="The hub for editors">Community portal</a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]" accesskey="r">Recent changes</a></li><li id="n-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard" title="Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia">Upload file</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikipedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"> <img class="mw-logo-tagline" alt="The Free Encyclopedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-en.svg" width="117" height="13" style="width: 7.3125em; height: 0.8125em;"> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box-auto-expand-width vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f"> Search </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail cdx-typeahead-search--auto-expand-width"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" aria-label="Search Wikipedia" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Appearance </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en" class="">Donate</a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=The+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class="">Create account</a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=The+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o" class="">Log in</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="Log in and more options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Personal tools </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en">Donate</a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=The+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"> Create account</a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=The+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o"> Log in</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing">learn more</a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y">Contributions</a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n">Talk</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav id="mw-panel-toc" aria-label="Contents" data-event-name="ui.sidebar-toc" class="mw-table-of-contents-container vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-toc-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-toc" class="vector-toc vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-toc-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="toc-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-toc" > <h2 class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Contents</h2> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.unpin">hide</button> </div> <ul class="vector-toc-contents" id="mw-panel-toc-list"> <li id="toc-mw-content-text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a href="#" class="vector-toc-link"> <div class="vector-toc-text">(Top)</div> </a> </li> <li id="toc-Background" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Background"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 1 Background </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Background-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Setting" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Setting"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Setting </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Setting-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Plot_summary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Plot_summary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Plot summary </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Plot_summary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Publication_and_reception" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publication_and_reception"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Publication and reception </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Publication_and_reception-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Primary_characters" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Primary_characters"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Primary characters </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Primary_characters-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Primary characters subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Primary_characters-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Don_Davidson" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Don_Davidson"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Don Davidson </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Don_Davidson-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Selver" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Selver"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Selver </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Selver-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Raj_Lyubov" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Raj_Lyubov"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Raj Lyubov </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Raj_Lyubov-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Themes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Themes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Themes </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Themes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Themes subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Themes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Hainish_universe_themes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hainish_universe_themes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Hainish universe themes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hainish_universe_themes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Language_and_communication" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Language_and_communication"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Language and communication </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Language_and_communication-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dreaming_and_consciousness" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dreaming_and_consciousness"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Dreaming and consciousness </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dreaming_and_consciousness-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Colonialism_and_anti-war_themes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Colonialism_and_anti-war_themes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Colonialism and anti-war themes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Colonialism_and_anti-war_themes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ecological_sensitivity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ecological_sensitivity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 Ecological sensitivity </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ecological_sensitivity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Resemblance_to_Avatar" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Resemblance_to_Avatar"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.6 Resemblance to Avatar </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Resemblance_to_Avatar-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Style_and_structure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Style_and_structure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Style and structure </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Style_and_structure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Sources </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Toggle the table of contents </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">The Word for World Is Forest</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 11 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-11" aria-hidden="true" > 11 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" title="The Word for World Is Forest – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="The Word for World Is Forest" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_nombre_del_mundo_es_Bosque" title="El nombre del mundo es Bosque – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="El nombre del mundo es Bosque" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oihan_hitzean_mundua" title="Oihan hitzean mundua – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Oihan hitzean mundua" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_nom_du_monde_est_for%C3%AAt" title="Le nom du monde est forêt – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Le nom du monde est forêt" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_mondo_della_foresta" title="Il mondo della foresta – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Il mondo della foresta" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82owo_%E2%80%9Elas%E2%80%9D_znaczy_%E2%80%9E%C5%9Bwiat%E2%80%9D" title="Słowo „las” znaczy „świat” – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Słowo „las” znaczy „świat”" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumii_%C3%AEi_spuneau_p%C4%83dure" title="Lumii îi spuneau pădure – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Lumii îi spuneau pădure" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%BE" title="Слово для леса и мира одно – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Слово для леса и мира одно" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" title="The Word for World Is Forest – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="The Word for World Is Forest" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A4r_v%C3%A4rlden_kallas_skog" title="Där världen kallas skog – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Där världen kallas skog" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%82%D1%83_%E2%80%94_%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81" title="Слово для світу — ліс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Слово для світу — ліс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q2447776#sitelinks-wikipedia" title="Edit interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Edit links</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c">Article</a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Talk:The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" rel="discussion" title="Discuss improvements to the content page [t]" accesskey="t">Talk</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" >English </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest">Read</a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e">Edit</a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h">View history</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" >Tools </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest">Read</a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e">Edit</a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=history">View history</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" title="List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [j]" accesskey="j">What links here</a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k">Related changes</a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u">Upload file</a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q">Special pages</a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&oldid=1258870815" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page">Permanent link</a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=info" title="More information about this page">Page information</a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&id=1258870815&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page">Cite this page</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Word_for_World_Is_Forest">Get shortened URL</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Word_for_World_Is_Forest">Download QR code</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=show-download-screen" title="Download this page as a PDF file">Download as PDF</a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p">Printable version</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-wikibase" class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikibase-dataitem mw-list-item"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q2447776" title="Structured data on this page hosted by Wikidata [g]" accesskey="g">Wikidata item</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> <div id="mw-indicator-good-star" class="mw-indicator"><div class="mw-parser-output"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles*" title="This is a good article. Click here for more information."><img alt="This is a good article. Click here for more information." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/19px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/29px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/39px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></a></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">1972 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The Word for World Is Forest <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Word+for+World+Is+Forest&rft.author=%5B%5BUrsula+K.+Le+Guin%5D%5D&rft.place=United+States&rft.pages=189&rft.series=%5B%5BHainish+Cycle%5D%5D&rft_id=info:oclcnum/2133448"></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:WordWorldForest.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/WordWorldForest.jpg/220px-WordWorldForest.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/WordWorldForest.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="380" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Cover of first edition (hardcover)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Powers" title="Richard M. Powers">Richard M. Powers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Series</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hainish_Cycle" title="Hainish Cycle">Hainish Cycle</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">Science fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">1972 (<a href="/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday</a>, anthology), 1976 (<a href="/wiki/Berkley_Books" title="Berkley Books">Berkley Books</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">Hardcover</a> & <a href="/wiki/Paperback" title="Paperback">Paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">189</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-399-11716-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-399-11716-4">0-399-11716-4</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2133448">2133448</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">813/.5/4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">PZ4.L518 Wo PS3562.E42</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> The Word for World Is Forest is a <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> <a href="/wiki/Novel" title="Novel">novel</a> by American writer <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, first published in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> in 1972 as a part of the anthology <a href="/wiki/Again,_Dangerous_Visions" title="Again, Dangerous Visions">Again, Dangerous Visions</a>, and published as a separate book in 1976 by <a href="/wiki/Berkley_Books" title="Berkley Books">Berkley Books</a>. It is part of Le Guin's <a href="/wiki/Hainish_Cycle" title="Hainish Cycle">Hainish Cycle</a>. 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. The novel carries strongly anti-colonial and anti-militaristic overtones, driven partly by Le Guin's negative reaction to the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. It also explores themes of sensitivity to the environment, and of connections between language and culture. It shares the theme of dreaming with Le Guin's novel <a href="/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven" title="The Lathe of Heaven">The Lathe of Heaven</a>, and the metaphor of the forest as a consciousness with the story "<a href="/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow" title="Vaster than Empires and More Slow">Vaster than Empires and More Slow</a>". The novel won the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> in 1973, where it had been in the category "Novella"; its length is about 41,300 words. It was nominated for several other awards. It received generally positive reviews from reviewers and scholars, and was variously described as moving and hard-hitting. Several critics, however, stated that it compared unfavorably with Le Guin's other works such as <a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a>, due to its sometimes polemic tone and lack of complex characters. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG/220px-Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG/330px-Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG/440px-Ursula_K_Le_Guin.JPG 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Le Guin giving a reading in 2008</figcaption></figure> Le Guin's father <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Louis_Kroeber" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Louis Kroeber">Alfred Louis Kroeber</a> and mother <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber" title="Theodora Kroeber">Theodora Kroeber</a> were scholars, and exposure to their <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropological work</a> considerably influenced Le Guin's writing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199960–65-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger20232-2">[2]</a> Many of the protagonists of Le Guin's novels, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World" title="Rocannon's World">Rocannon's World</a> are also anthropologists or social investigators of some kind.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199955–60-3">[3]</a> Le Guin used the term Ekumen for her fictional alliance of worlds, a term which she got from her father, who derived it from the Greek Oikoumene to refer to Eurasian cultures that shared a common origin.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199970–77-4">[4]</a> Le Guin's interest in <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> influenced much of her science fiction work. Douglas Barbour stated that the fiction of the Hainish Universe contains a theme of balance between light and darkness, a central theme of Taoism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199951–55-5">[5]</a> She was also influenced by her early interest in mythology, and her exposure to cultural diversity as a child. Her protagonists are frequently interested in the cultures they are investigating, and are motivated to preserve them rather than conquer them.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid19973–8-6">[6]</a> Authors that influenced Le Guin include <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy">Leo Tolstoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Woolf" title="Virginia Woolf">Virginia Woolf</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italo_Calvino" title="Italo Calvino">Italo Calvino</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lao_Tzu" class="mw-redirect" title="Lao Tzu">Lao Tzu</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199710–17-7">[7]</a> Le Guin identified herself with <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>, and was interested in <a href="/wiki/Non-violence" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-violence">non-violence</a> and ecological awareness. She participated in demonstrations against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. These sympathies can be seen in several of her works of fiction, including the Hainish universe works.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199710–17-7">[7]</a> The novels of the Hainish universe frequently explore the effects of differing social and political systems, although she displayed a preference for a "society that governs by consensus, a communal cooperation without external government."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55-8">[8]</a> Her fiction also frequently challenges accepted depictions of race and gender.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55-8">[8]</a> The novel was originally named "Little Green Men,"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089-9">[9]</a> in reference to the <a href="/wiki/Little_Green_Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Green Men">common science-fiction trope</a>. In her introduction to the 1976 edition, Le Guin stated that she was concerned at the exploitation of the natural world by humans, particularly in the name of financial gain, and that this concern drove her story.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHovanec1989-10">[10]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Setting">Setting</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Setting">edit</a>]</div> The Word for World is Forest is set in the fictional <a href="/wiki/Hainish_cycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Hainish cycle">Hainish</a> universe, which Le Guin introduced in her first novel <a href="/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World" title="Rocannon's World">Rocannon's World</a>, published in 1966. In this <a href="/wiki/Alternative_history" class="mw-redirect" title="Alternative history">alternative history</a>, human beings did not evolve on Earth, but on Hain. The people of Hain colonized many neighboring planetary systems, including Terra (Earth) and Athshe, possibly a million years before the setting of the novels.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199066–67-11">[11]</a> The planets subsequently lost contact with each other, for reasons that Le Guin does not explain.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70-12">[12]</a> Le Guin does not narrate the entire history of the Hainish universe at once, instead letting readers piece it together from various works.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199719–21-13">[13]</a> The novels and other fictional works set in the Hainish universe recount the efforts to re-establish a galactic civilization. Explorers from Hain as well as other planets use <a href="/wiki/Interstellar_travel" title="Interstellar travel">interstellar ships</a> taking years to travel between planetary systems, although the journey is shortened for the travelers due to relativistic <a href="/wiki/Time_dilation" title="Time dilation">time dilation</a>, as well as through instantaneous interstellar communication using the <a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">ansible</a>, introduced in <a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70-12">[12]</a> At least two "thought experiments" are used in each novel; the background idea of a common origin for all the humanoid species, and a second idea unique to each novel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199066–67-11">[11]</a> In The Word for World is Forest, the second thought experiment is the colonization of a pacifist culture on the planet Athshe by a military-controlled logging team from Earth, known in the novel as "Terra"; additionally, the inhabitants of Athshe recognize the people from Terra as human, but the Terrans do not see the Athsheans, who are small and covered in green fur, as human.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> The Athsheans refer to the Terrans as "yumens", while the Terrans tend to use the derogatory term "creechie".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> Most of the surface of the planet of Athshe, known to the human colonizers as "New Tahiti", is taken up by ocean; the land surfaces are concentrated in a single half of the northern hemisphere, and prior to the arrival of Terran colonists, is entirely covered in forest.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin19767–8-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> The Terrans are interested in using this forest as a source of timber, because wood has become a highly scarce commodity on Earth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> Athshe's plants and animals are similar to those of Earth, placed there by the Hainish people in their first wave of colonisation that also settled Earth. The Cetian visitor also states categorically that the native humans "came from the same, original, Hainish stock".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–74-17">[17]</a> The Athsheans are physically small, only about a meter tall, and covered in fine greenish fur.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> They are a very non-aggressive people; at one point, one of the Terrans observes that "rape, violent assault, and murder virtually don't exist among them". They have adopted a number of behaviors to avoid violence, including aggression-halting postures and competitive singing.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> Unlike Terrans the Athsheans follow a polycyclic sleep pattern, and their <a href="/wiki/Circadian_rhythm" title="Circadian rhythm">circadian rhythms</a> make them most active at dawn and dusk; thus, they struggle to adapt to the 8-hour Terran working day.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> Athsheans are able to enter the dream state consciously, and their dreams both heal them and guide their behavior.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197642–49-19">[19]</a> Those individuals adept at interpreting dreams are seen as gods amongst the Athsheans.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> In the internal chronology of the Hainish universe, the events of The Word for World is Forest occur after The Dispossessed, in which both the ansible and the League of Worlds are unrealised dreams. However, the novel is located prior to <a href="/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World" title="Rocannon's World">Rocannon's World</a>, in which Terran mindspeech is seen as a distinct possibility. A date of 2368 CE has been suggested by reviewers, although Le Guin provides no direct statement of the date.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975a-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_summary">Plot summary</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Plot summary">edit</a>]</div> The Word for World is Forest begins from the point of view of Captain Davidson, who is the commander of a logging camp named Smith camp. Many native Athsheans are used as slave labor at the camp, and also as personal servants. The novel begins with Davidson travelling to "Centralville", the headquarters of the colony, hoping to have a sexual encounter with one of a number of women who have just arrived on the predominantly male colony. When Davidson returns to Smith Camp, he finds the entire camp burned to the ground, and all of the humans dead. He lands to investigate, and while on the ground is overpowered by four Athsheans. He recognizes one of them as Selver, an Athshean who was a personal servant at the headquarters of the colony, and later an assistant to Raj Lyubov, the colony <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologist</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22-22">[22]</a> A few months prior to the attack, Davidson had raped Selver's wife Thele, who died in the process, prompting an enraged Selver to attack Davidson. Davidson nearly kills him, before he is rescued by Lyubov; however, he is left with prominent facial scars, which render him easily recognizable.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22-22">[22]</a> The Athsheans allow Davidson to leave and carry a message about the destruction of the camp back to the colony headquarters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22-22">[22]</a> After the attack, Selver roams through the forest for five days before coming upon an Athshean settlement.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197626-23">[23]</a> After recovering from the effects of many days of travel, Selver describes to the people of the town the destruction of his town, known as Eshreth, by the Terrans, who then built their headquarters at the site. He also tells them about the enslavement of hundreds of Athsheans at the various camps.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197629–32-24">[24]</a> He says that the Terrans are crazy because they do not respect the sanctity of life in the same way that the Athsheans do, which was why he led the attack against camp Smith.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197629–32-24">[24]</a> After some discussion, the people of the town send messengers to other towns sharing Selver's story, while Selver himself travels back towards the Terran headquarters. An inquiry into the destruction of camp Smith is held at Centralville. In addition to the personnel of the colony, two emissaries from the planets of Hain and <a href="/wiki/Tau_Ceti" title="Tau Ceti">Tau Ceti</a> also participate. Lyubov states that the colony's mistreatment and enslavement of the Athsheans led to the attack.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–59-25">[25]</a> Colonel Dongh, the commander of the colony, blames Lyubov's assessment of the Athsheans as non-aggressive.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197670–73-26">[26]</a> The emissaries state that the rules of Terra's colonial administration have changed since the colony last heard from it; they present the colony with an <a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">ansible</a>, which can communicate instantly with Terra and the colonial administration (communication which would otherwise take 27 years in one direction).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197666–69-27">[27]</a> They also state that Terra is now a member of the "League of Worlds", of which they are emissaries.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197666–69-27">[27]</a> The colony is forced to release all its Athshean slaves, and minimize contact with them. Davidson is transferred to a different camp under a higher-ranking commander, as punishment for a retaliatory raid that he carried out.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197676–79-28">[28]</a> However, Davidson violates his orders and leads further attacks against Athshean towns, without the knowledge of his superiors.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197684–86-29">[29]</a> Following the inquiry, Lyubov visits the Athshean town he had been studying. He meets Selver, hoping to rebuild their friendship, but Selver rebuffs him, telling him to stay away from Centralville two days hence.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197694–97-30">[30]</a> Two nights later, Selver leads the Athsheans in a massive attack on Centralville. Although the attack deliberately avoids Lyubov's house, Lyubov leaves during the attack and is killed by a collapsing building. The attack kills all of the women in the colony; the men that survive are herded into a compound and held prisoner. Selver tells them that the attack was in retaliation for Davidson's killings in the south, which the survivors are ignorant of.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976122–125-31">[31]</a> Selver states that if the Terrans agree to restrict themselves to a small area and agree to avoid conflict with the Athsheans, they will be left in peace until the next Terran ship arrives to take them off the colony.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976122–125-31">[31]</a> The survivors agree to his terms, and order all their remaining outposts to withdraw, including the one at which Davidson lives.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976132–135-32">[32]</a> However, Davidson disobeys orders and continues to attack Athshean towns, refusing to return to Centralville.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976146–149-33">[33]</a> After a couple of weeks, the Athsheans attack Davidson's camp, killing or capturing everybody except Davidson and two others, who escape in a helicopter. Although the others want to return to Centralville, Davidson orders them back to fight the Athsheans. The Helicopter crashes, killing all but Davidson, who is captured.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976150–159-34">[34]</a> He is taken before Selver, who says that Davidson gave Selver the gift of murder, but that Selver would not kill Davidson, because there was no need. Instead, the Athsheans abandon Davidson on an island that Terran logging has rendered barren.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976160–162-35">[35]</a> Three years later the Terran ships return and take the surviving colonists off the planet; the commander of the ships states that the Terrans will not return except as observers and scientists, as the planet has been placed under a ban by the League of Worlds. Selver gives Lyubov's research, which he has saved, to one of the emissaries, who tells him that Lyubov's efforts to protect the Athsheans will not be forgotten, and that his work will be given the value it deserves. Selver reflects that although the planet may have been won from the Terrans, his people have now learned the ability to kill without reason.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976163–169-36">[36]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_and_reception">Publication and reception</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Publication and reception">edit</a>]</div> The Word for World is Forest was initially published in the first volume of the anthology <a href="/wiki/Again,_Dangerous_Visions" title="Again, Dangerous Visions">Again, Dangerous Visions</a> in 1972,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758-37">[37]</a> which was edited by <a href="/wiki/Harlan_Ellison" title="Harlan Ellison">Harlan Ellison</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENichollsClute2019-38">[38]</a> The volume was meant to be a collection of new and original stories from authors that had come to be known as the "<a href="/wiki/New_Wave_science_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="New Wave science fiction">New Left</a>" of science fiction.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199950–51-39">[39]</a> It has subsequently been reprinted as a stand-alone volume several times, beginning in 1976, when it was published by <a href="/wiki/Berkley_Books" title="Berkley Books">Berkley Books</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENichollsClute2019-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199964-40">[40]</a> The work was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award_for_Best_Novella" title="Nebula Award for Best Novella">Nebula</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELocus1973-41">[41]</a> and Locus Awards for Best Novella<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEsfadb2015-42">[42]</a> and won the 1973 <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella" title="Hugo Award for Best Novella">Hugo Award for Best Novella</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHugo2012-43">[43]</a> It was also a finalist for the <a href="/wiki/National_Book_Award" title="National Book Award">National Book Award</a> in 1976.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid1997117-44">[44]</a> The novel has received significant critical attention since it was published, along with <a href="/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow" title="Vaster than Empires and More Slow">Vaster than Empires and More Slow</a>, with which it is frequently compared.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199950–51-39">[39]</a> It has gotten generally positive reviews from critics and scholars, although several noted that it was not Le Guin's best work. <a href="/wiki/Kirkus_Reviews" title="Kirkus Reviews">Kirkus Reviews</a> stated in 1976 that the book was "Lesser Le Guin, but often impressive",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkus1976-45">[45]</a> while Carol Hovanec called it "brief but stunning."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHovanec1989-10">[10]</a> Suzanne Reid stated that the novel was "deeply moving and shocking by turns".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> The novel contrasts good and evil very explicitly, unlike in other Hainish cycle works such as The Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed, which made The Word for World is Forest less complex than those other works.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> Charlotte Spivack stated that although the novel was "deftly written and imaginatively conceived", its "polemic" style made it a lesser literary achievement than many of Le Guin's other works.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> She says that unlike many other characters that Le Guin has created, such as George Orr and Dr. Haber in <a href="/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven" title="The Lathe of Heaven">The Lathe of Heaven</a>, several characters in The Word for World is Forest, such as Davidson, exist only as one-dimensional stereotypes. She described the style of the novel as "moving and hard-hitting", but said that because it was written in the mood of the reaction to the Vietnam War, it was "not meant to be entertainment".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Primary_characters">Primary characters</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Primary characters">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Don_Davidson">Don Davidson</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Don Davidson">edit</a>]</div> Captain Don Davidson begins the novel as the commander of Smith Camp. He is described as being of "euraf" descent.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199093-47">[47]</a> Shortly before the events of the novel, Davidson rapes Thele, Selver's wife, who dies in the process.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197657–58-48">[48]</a> After Smith is destroyed by Selver and his compatriots, Davidson is relocated to a camp called New Java, where he leads reprisals against the Athsheans against orders. He is eventually captured and abandoned on an isolated island by the Athsheans. He is portrayed as a relentless and uncompromising figure, always planning how to overcome an unfriendly natural environment and conquer the natives, whom he sees as inferior.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93-49">[49]</a> The language used in Davidson's internal monologues reveals his hatred and contempt for people different from himself.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> Initially, this hatred is directed at the Athsheans, whom he sees as nonhuman and refers to as "creechies" (a derivative of "creatures"). However, his contempt extends to the women in the colony and eventually to other members of the military, who follow the Colonel's orders not to fight the Athsheans.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93-49">[49]</a> He has racist feelings towards the South Asian anthropologist Raj Lyubov, stating that "some men, especially, the asiatiforms and the hindi types, are actually born traitors."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93-49">[49]</a> In contrast to Lyubov and Selver, he is depicted as a person who is not self-aware, whose self-hatred and rigid mental attitude are his undoing. He rejects out of hand anything that does not conform to his beliefs, dismissing anyone who disagrees with him as "going spla" (insane).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93-49">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selver">Selver</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Selver">edit</a>]</div> Selver is the chief Athshean protagonist of the novel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> He is training to become a dreamer among the Athsheans when the Terrans colonize Athshe, and Selver is enslaved.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105-52">[52]</a> Selver, referred to as "Sam" by the Terrans, is initially used as a manservant in the colony headquarters, before Lyubov comes across him and takes him on as an interpreter and assistant. They quickly form a bond, and Selver helps Lyubov understand both the Athshean language and their method of dreaming.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105-52">[52]</a> Although Lyubov is willing to allow Selver to escape, Selver tells him that he will not because his wife Thele is also a slave at the camp.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105-52">[52]</a> After learning this, Lyubov allows the two to meet secretly in his quarters; however, Thele is raped by Davidson, and dies in the process. An enraged Selver attacks Davidson, who nearly kills him before Lyubov rescues Selver and sets him free against orders.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105-52">[52]</a> In contrast to Davidson, Selver is depicted as a highly sensitive and intuitive individual.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> After he tells his story to the other Athsheans, they begin to see him as a "sha'ab" or god, who interprets his own experiences and dreams to mean that the Terrans must be killed and forced off the planet.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Raj_Lyubov">Raj Lyubov</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Raj Lyubov">edit</a>]</div> Raj Lyubov is the anthropologist in the colony, a scholar who holds the honorary rank of "captain".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197653–54-53">[53]</a> He is depicted as being from an <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> heritage.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089-9">[9]</a> Selver is initially a servant in the central camp; Lyubov enlists him as an assistant, and builds a relationship of trust with him. The two of them compile a dictionary of the Athshean and Terran languages. When Selver's wife Thele is raped and killed by Davidson, Selver attacks Davidson, who nearly kills him; Lyubov rescues Selver, and nurses him back to health. During the attack on the colony's headquarters, Selver tells the Athsheans to leave Lyubov's house alone, but Lyubov leaves his house and is killed by a collapsing building. As he dies, Lyubov warns Selver about the impact of the killings on the Athshean society.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976116–118-54">[54]</a> In comparison to Davidson, Lyubov reflects a lot upon his actions, and tries to analyze them in a detached manner. His contradictory position of being a colonial officer despite recognizing the damage that the colony is doing to the Athsheans gives him <a href="/wiki/Migraine" title="Migraine">migraines</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199094–96-55">[55]</a> He feels a strong sense of guilt at the impacts of the colony, and is willing to destroy his own reputation in order to protect the Athshean people.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197672–74-56">[56]</a> He is one of the only Terrans to treat the Athsheans as human beings, although this loses him the respect of his fellow Terrans.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199094–96-55">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Themes">Themes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Themes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hainish_universe_themes">Hainish universe themes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hainish universe themes">edit</a>]</div> Similar to <a href="/wiki/Future_history" title="Future history">future history</a> works by other authors such as <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>, Le Guin's fictional works set in the Hainish universe explore the idea of human society expanding across the galaxy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70-12">[12]</a> Books like <a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a>, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for World is Forest also explore the effects of various social and political systems.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55-8">[8]</a> Le Guin's later Hainish novels also challenge contemporary ideas about gender, ethnic differences, the value of ownership, and human beings' relationship to the natural world.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199751–56-57">[57]</a> In comparison to the other worlds of the Hainish universe, the relationship between Athshe and the League of Worlds is portrayed as ambiguous. Whereas with planets such as Gethen in The Left Hand of Darkness the integration with the Hainish planets is seen as a good thing, Athshe is seen as changed for the worse both by the loggers and by being taught to kill their own species.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins1990101–103-58">[58]</a> The League eventually decides to isolate Athshe and limit all contact with it, a decision shown to have ambiguous overtones.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins1990101–103-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Language_and_communication">Language and communication</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Language and communication">edit</a>]</div> Language and linguistic barriers are a major theme in The Word for World Is Forest, something exemplified by the title. In contrast to other Hainish universe novels such as The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World Is Forest portrays a communication gap that the protagonists are never able to bridge.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> Both the native Athsheans and the loggers have languages that reflect their perceptions of reality, but they are unable to find a common language. In the native Athshean language, the word "Athshe" means both "forest" and "world", demonstrating the close link that the Athsheans have to the forest and their planet.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> It is noted by Lyubov that the Athsheans believe "the substance of their world was not earth, but forest".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197689-59">[59]</a> The language used by the Athsheans during conversations similarly show their interconnectedness and dependence on their ecosystem through the use of forest related metaphors.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098-60">[60]</a> Similarly, the Athshean word for "dream" is the same as the word for "root". Athsheans have learned to exert some conscious control over their dreams, and their actions are dictated by both their dream experiences and their conscious non-dreaming thoughts. Thus their dreaming makes them rooted, something which is demonstrated through their use of language.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> The Athshean word for "god" is the same as the word for "translator", representing this role that "gods have" in their society, which is to interpret and translate their dreams into actions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dreaming_and_consciousness">Dreaming and consciousness</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Dreaming and consciousness">edit</a>]</div> The Word for World is Forest shares the theme of dreaming with the later Le Guin novel <a href="/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven" title="The Lathe of Heaven">The Lathe of Heaven</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> Suzanne Reid stated that the novel examines the source and effect of dreams.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> The Athsheans teach themselves to consciously and actively control their dreams.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> This allows them to access their subconscious in a way that the Terrans are not able.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> The Athsheans follow a polycyclic sleep pattern with a period of 120 minutes, which makes it impossible for them to adapt to the Terran eight-hour work day. Their dreaming is not restricted to times when they are asleep, with adept dreamers being able to dream while wide awake as well.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> The visions they see while dreaming direct and shape their waking behavior, which Selver describes as "balanc[ing] your sanity ... on the double support, the fine balance, of reason and dream; once you have learned that, you cannot unlearn it any more than you can unlearn to think."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> The leaders among the Athsheans are the best dreamers, and they consider individuals able to interpret dreams to be gods.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> The Athshean word for "god" is the same as the word for "translator", representing this role that "gods have" in their society.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> Spivack writes that Selver becomes such a god during the events of The Word for World is Forest, but his interpretation of dreams is a negative one, because it tells the Athsheans how to kill.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> The Athsheans perceive the Terrans as an insane people, partly because of the disconnect amongst the Terrans between conscious, rational thinking and subconscious drives.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> The Terrans frequent use of <a href="/wiki/Hallucinogens" class="mw-redirect" title="Hallucinogens">hallucinogens</a> is seen as the closest they are able to get to understanding their own subconscious. The psychological equilibrium which their dreaming gives the Athsheans is portrayed as the reason why they are able to live in balance with their ecosystem.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> Reviewer Ian Watson states that the Athshean forest itself is a metaphor for consciousness in the novel. The Terrans, distanced from their own tangled subconscious, are afraid of the forest, and seek to tear it down.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> The Athsheans, in contrast, are integrated with it at a subconscious level. The entire forest is also seen as a collective Athshean consciousness.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> Although the forest in The Word for World is Forest is not actually sentient, Le Guin explores the idea of a sentient forest further in the short story "<a href="/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow" title="Vaster than Empires and More Slow">Vaster than Empires and More Slow</a>", which shares many thematic parallels with the former.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonialism_and_anti-war_themes">Colonialism and anti-war themes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Colonialism and anti-war themes">edit</a>]</div> Le Guin was strongly opposed to and troubled by the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, a reaction which played a large part in the tone of the novel.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> The tone of the novel is often harsh and hard-hitting, playing off the anger in the United States at American military actions in Vietnam.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> The tension between violence and non-violence is a part of the dialectic theme in the novel, of a constant tension between opposites.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">[46]</a> Through most of the novel, the Terran military is in control of the colony, despite Raj Lyubov's good intentions. Davidson is the most prominent example of the oppressiveness of the military government.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> There are intentional parallels drawn between the Terran colonizers and the US intervention in Vietnam; the anti-interventionist tone of the novel was in sharp contrast to other science-fiction novels about war written around the same period.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> For example, the high use of drugs amongst US troops in Vietnam is represented by the use of hallucinogens amongst the Terran soldiers, which Le Guin portrays as the norm on the colony.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> The Athsheans, in contrast, are shown as an innately peaceful and non-aggressive people, at least at the beginning of novel. Rape and murder are virtually unknown on the planet.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> They have adopted a number of behaviors that preempt violence; thus when Selver has Davidson pinned down after the attack on Smith camp, he finds himself unable to kill Davidson, despite the hate he feels towards the Terran.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">[18]</a> Selver spends much of the novel reflecting on the effect that violence has on his own culture. He turns to violence, against the Athshean ethic, in order to save his culture as he sees it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> However, unlike Davidson, who enjoys killing, Selver sees it as something poisoning his culture. This perception is shared by his fellow Athsheans: one of the elders of the Athsheans says to Selver "You've done what you had to do, and it was not right."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> The Word for World is Forest also challenges the idea of colonialism; the Terran colonists are depicted as being blind to the culture of the Athsheans, and convinced that they represent a higher form of civilization.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> Le Guin also challenges the metaphorical preference in Western cultures for pure light, in contrast to deeper and more complex shadows.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">[15]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ecological_sensitivity">Ecological sensitivity</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Ecological sensitivity">edit</a>]</div> Throughout the novel Le Guin draws a contrast between the Athshean way of integrating with the ecology of the planet, and the Terran way of destroying it. The Athsheans are portrayed as having a decentralized society, which has not damaged the ecosystem to further its own economy.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> In comparison, the Terrans are shown as having nearly destroyed their planet by exhausting its natural resources, and having come to Athshe to plunder its resources.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">[14]</a> The Terrans have an instrumentalist view of the forest, seeing it as wood to be shipped to Terra and land to be transformed into farms.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> The Athshean dwellings and towns are built in a way that allows them to integrate with their environment: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">No way was clear, no light unbroken, in the forest. Into wind, water, sunlight, starlight, there always entered leaf and branch, bole and root, the shadowy, the complex. Little paths ran under the branches, around the boles, over the roots: they did not go straight, but yielded to every obstacle, devious as nerves ...<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197625-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a></blockquote> This depiction not only links the Athsheans to their environment, but gives primacy to the forest over the rest of the natural ecosystem.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> The Athsheans' clans are named after trees, and their highly decentralized social structure is constructed in a way that resembles their ecosystem.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> To the Athsheans, being a mentally healthy person is equivalent to being in touch with their roots, which are closely linked to their ecosystem.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> In contrast, the Terrans' behavior, such as rape and murder, is attributed to their leaving "their roots behind them".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">[62]</a> In the Athshean language the word for "forest" is also the word for "world", showing the dependence of the Athshean culture upon the forest.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68-21">[21]</a> In contrast, the Terrans ignorance of the ecology of the planet has already denuded one island in the archipelago, and is damaging the rest of the planet. Davidson sees the forest as a waste of space, and wishes to turn it into farmland.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68-21">[21]</a> The contrast between the Terran relationship to the planet and the Athshean one is the major example of a larger dialectical structure within the novel, a comparison of opposites.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> Throughout, the Athsheans are shown as living in balance with their world, while the Terrans despoil it. The Athsheans are shown as a gentle people, in contrast the violence and aggression of the Terrans.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> The three main characters of the novel, Selver, Lyubov, and Davidson, have been described by reviewers as representing three different historical attitudes towards nature. Davidson represents the machismo of some early explorers, who feared nature and wanted to overcome it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199974–75-64">[64]</a> Lyubov has a more positive but highly romanticized view of the forest, while only Selver and the other Athsheans are able to live in harmony with it.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resemblance_to_Avatar">Resemblance to Avatar</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Resemblance to Avatar">edit</a>]</div> Several reviewers have noted that the narrative of the 2009 film <a href="/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)" title="Avatar (2009 film)">Avatar</a> has many similarities to that of The Word for World is Forest.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestfahl2009-66">[66]</a> Specific similarities include the notion that the Earth's resources have been used up, the extraction of resources in an exploitative manner from another planet, a native population on that planet which lives in close harmony with their world, and a rebellion by those natives against the exploitative human colonizers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010-65">[65]</a> A key difference lies in the roles of the "benevolent" humans in both works: Raj Lyubov in The Word for World is Forest, Jake Sully and the human scientists in Avatar. While Lyubov made an impression as a "sensible" human and did help mediate peace between the Athshean people and humanity, he is not the savior of their race, and he does not survive to claim any "prize" from it. Additionally, in The Word for World is Forest militarism is regarded by the Athsheans – especially Selver – as an unfortunate but necessary addition to Athshean culture, and one that may destroy their way of life. In contrast, militarism is seen less critically in Avatar.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010-65">[65]</a> In the introduction to the second volume of the Hainish Novels and Stories,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin2017-67">[67]</a> Le Guin signals the similarities with "a high-budget, highly successful film" which "completely reverses the book's moral premise, presenting the central and unsolved problem of the book, mass violence, as a solution" and states "I'm glad I have nothing at all to do with it".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin2017-67">[67]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_structure">Style and structure</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Style and structure">edit</a>]</div> The novel has eight chapters, narrated by each of the three main characters in turn. Davidson narrates chapters 1, 4, and 7; Selver narrates chapters 2, 6, and 8; and Lyubov narrates chapters 3 and 5.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> This alternation emphasizes both the differences between the characters and their isolation within their societies. Lyubov and Davidson's chapters are narrated from a limited omniscient point of view, making their chapters seem like internal monologues.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> Davidson's belief in the inferiority of the Athsheans and his adversarial attitude towards the planet are directly presented to the reader, along with Lyubov's struggle to do his job dispassionately while following his personal morality.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> In contrast, Selver's chapters are written from a truly omniscient point of view, allowing Le Guin to give the reader information about the planet and its people. Selver has no extensive monologues; instead, several other Athsheans also feature prominently in his chapters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> Although the novel is an anti-war novel portraying a military conflict, unusually, it does not describe most of the action, planning, and strategy. Instead, most of the action happens off the page, and the novel focuses on the decisions being made about the conflict in the minds of the principal characters.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> The language used within each chapter shifts with the protagonist, revealing the way they think about the events of the book. Davidson's monologues are filled with the derogatory language he uses; the Athsheans are referred to by the slang term "creechie", the women in the colony are "prime human stock," and so forth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> Le Guin herself later said she was unhappy with the "strident" tone of the novel. She had been troubled by the Vietnam War, but was living in London when she wrote the novel, cut off from the <a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_United_States_involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War" title="Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War">anti-war movement</a> she had been a part of in <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>. Written in these circumstances, The Word for World is Forest became what Le Guin called a "preachment".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">[50]</a> She stated that writing the book was like "taking dictation from a boss with ulcers".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> She said that she had wanted to write about forests and dreaming, but that the "boss" had made her write instead about ecological destruction.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">[61]</a> Charlotte Spivack stated that the book was an "angry work", that ended on a note of futility and despair.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199960–65-1"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199960–65_1-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 60–65. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger20232-2"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger20232_2-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger2023">Davison-Vecchione and Seeger 2023</a>, p. 2. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199955–60-3"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199955–60_3-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 55–60. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199970–77-4"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199970–77_4-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 70–77. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199951–55-5"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199951–55_5-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 51–55. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid19973–8-6"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid19973–8_6-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 3–8. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199710–17-7">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199710–17_7-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199710–17_7-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 10–17. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55-8">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55_8-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55_8-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199749–55_8-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 49–55. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089-9">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089_9-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089_9-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, p. 89. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHovanec1989-10">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHovanec1989_10-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHovanec1989_10-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFHovanec1989">Hovanec 1989</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199066–67-11">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199066–67_11-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199066–67_11-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 66–67. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70-12">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70_12-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70_12-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199068–70_12-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 68–70. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199719–21-13"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199719–21_13-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 19–21. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90-14">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199087–90_14-6">g</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 87–90. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60-15">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758–60_15-7">h</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 58–60. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin19767–8-16"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin19767–8_16-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 7–8. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–74-17"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–74_17-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 56–74. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70-18">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198469–70_18-5">f</a> <a href="#CITEREFSpivack1984">Spivack 1984</a>, pp. 69–70. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197642–49-19"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197642–49_19-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 42–49. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975a-20"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975a_20-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWatson1975a">Watson 1975a</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68-21">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68_21-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68_21-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68_21-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198467–68_21-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFSpivack1984">Spivack 1984</a>, pp. 67–68. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22-22">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22_22-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22_22-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197618–22_22-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 18–22. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197626-23"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197626_23-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, p. 26. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197629–32-24">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197629–32_24-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197629–32_24-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 29–32. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–59-25"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197656–59_25-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 56–59. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197670–73-26"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197670–73_26-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 70–73. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197666–69-27">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197666–69_27-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197666–69_27-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 66–69. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197676–79-28"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197676–79_28-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 76–79. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197684–86-29"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197684–86_29-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 84–86. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197694–97-30"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197694–97_30-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 94–97. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976122–125-31">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976122–125_31-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976122–125_31-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 122–125. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976132–135-32"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976132–135_32-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 132–135. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976146–149-33"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976146–149_33-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 146–149. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976150–159-34"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976150–159_34-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 150–159. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976160–162-35"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976160–162_35-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 160–162. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976163–169-36"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976163–169_36-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 163–169. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199758-37"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199758_37-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, p. 58. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTENichollsClute2019-38">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENichollsClute2019_38-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTENichollsClute2019_38-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFNichollsClute2019">Nicholls & Clute 2019</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199950–51-39">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199950–51_39-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199950–51_39-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 50–51. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199964-40"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199964_40-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, p. 64. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELocus1973-41"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELocus1973_41-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLocus1973">Locus 1973</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEsfadb2015-42"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEsfadb2015_42-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFsfadb2015">sfadb 2015</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHugo2012-43"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHugo2012_43-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHugo2012">Hugo 2012</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid1997117-44"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid1997117_44-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, p. 117. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEKirkus1976-45"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKirkus1976_45-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFKirkus1976">Kirkus 1976</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71-46">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198470–71_46-8">i</a> <a href="#CITEREFSpivack1984">Spivack 1984</a>, pp. 70–71. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199093-47"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199093_47-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, p. 93. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197657–58-48"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197657–58_48-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, p. 57–58. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93-49">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93_49-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93_49-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93_49-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199091–93_49-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 91–93. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93-50">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199089–93_50-7">h</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 89–93. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69-51">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpivack198468–69_51-8">i</a> <a href="#CITEREFSpivack1984">Spivack 1984</a>, pp. 68–69. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105-52">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105_52-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105_52-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105_52-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976100–105_52-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 100–105. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197653–54-53"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197653–54_53-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 53–54. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976116–118-54"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin1976116–118_54-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 116–118. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199094–96-55">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199094–96_55-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199094–96_55-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 94–96. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197672–74-56"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197672–74_56-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, pp. 72–74. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEReid199751–56-57"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEReid199751–56_57-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFReid1997">Reid 1997</a>, pp. 51–56. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins1990101–103-58">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins1990101–103_58-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins1990101–103_58-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 101–103. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197689-59"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197689_59-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, p. 89. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098-60"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098_60-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, p. 98. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b-61">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-10">k</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWatson1975b_61-11">l</a> <a href="#CITEREFWatson1975b">Watson 1975b</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103-62">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECummins199098–103_62-6">g</a> <a href="#CITEREFCummins1990">Cummins 1990</a>, pp. 98–103. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197625-63"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin197625_63-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin1976">Le Guin 1976</a>, p. 25. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWhite199974–75-64"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWhite199974–75_64-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWhite1999">White 1999</a>, pp. 74–75. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010-65">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010_65-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010_65-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBarnhill2010_65-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFBarnhill2010">Barnhill 2010</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestfahl2009-66"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestfahl2009_66-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFWestfahl2009">Westfahl 2009</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELe_Guin2017-67">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin2017_67-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELe_Guin2017_67-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFLe_Guin2017">Le Guin 2017</a>. </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Sources">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarnhill2010" class="citation journal cs1">Barnhill, David (2010). "Spirituality and Resistance: Ursula Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and the Film Avatar". <a href="/wiki/Journal_for_the_Study_of_Religion,_Nature_and_Culture" title="Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture">Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture</a>. 4 (4): 478–498. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1558%2Fjsrnc.v4i4.478">10.1558/jsrnc.v4i4.478</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Journal+for+the+Study+of+Religion%2C+Nature+and+Culture&rft.atitle=Spirituality+and+Resistance%3A+Ursula+Le+Guin%27s+The+Word+for+World+is+Forest+and+the+Film+Avatar&rft.volume=4&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=478-498&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1558%2Fjsrnc.v4i4.478&rft.aulast=Barnhill&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCummins1990" class="citation book cs1">Cummins, Elizabeth (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/understandingurs0000cumm">Understanding Ursula K. Le Guin</a>. <a href="/wiki/Columbia,_South_Carolina" title="Columbia, South Carolina">Columbia</a>, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87249-687-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-87249-687-2"><bdi>0-87249-687-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Understanding+Ursula+K.+Le+Guin&rft.place=Columbia%2C+South+Carolina&rft.pub=University+of+South+Carolina+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-87249-687-2&rft.aulast=Cummins&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Funderstandingurs0000cumm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger2023" class="citation journal cs1">Davison-Vecchione, Daniel; Seeger, Sean (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02632764211051780">"Ursula Le Guin's Speculative Anthropology: Thick Description, Historicity and Science Fiction"</a>. Theory, Culture & Society: 26327642110517–. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02632764211051780">10.1177/02632764211051780</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0263-2764">0263-2764</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:243824084">243824084</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Theory%2C+Culture+%26+Society&rft.atitle=Ursula+Le+Guin%27s+Speculative+Anthropology%3A+Thick+Description%2C+Historicity+and+Science+Fiction&rft.pages=26327642110517-&rft.date=2021&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A243824084%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.issn=0263-2764&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1177%2F02632764211051780&rft.aulast=Davison-Vecchione&rft.aufirst=Daniel&rft.au=Seeger%2C+Sean&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%252F02632764211051780&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHovanec1989" class="citation journal cs1">Hovanec, Carol P. (1989). "Visions of Nature in The Word for World is Forest: A Mirror of the American Consciousness". Extrapolation. 30 (1): 84–92. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3828%2Fextr.1989.30.1.84">10.3828/extr.1989.30.1.84</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Extrapolation&rft.atitle=Visions+of+Nature+in+The+Word+for+World+is+Forest%3A+A+Mirror+of+the+American+Consciousness&rft.volume=30&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=84-92&rft.date=1989&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.3828%2Fextr.1989.30.1.84&rft.aulast=Hovanec&rft.aufirst=Carol+P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHugo2012" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110507164622/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1973-hugo-awards/">"1973 Hugo Awards"</a>. The Hugo Awards. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1973-hugo-awards/">the original</a> on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Hugo+Awards&rft.atitle=1973+Hugo+Awards&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehugoawards.org%2Fhugo-history%2F1973-hugo-awards%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKirkus1976" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ursula-k-le-guin/word-for-world-is-forest/">"The Word for World is Forest"</a>. Kirkus reviews. 1 April 1976. Retrieved 23 August 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Kirkus+reviews&rft.atitle=The+Word+for+World+is+Forest&rft.date=1976-04-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kirkusreviews.com%2Fbook-reviews%2Fursula-k-le-guin%2Fword-for-world-is-forest%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLe_Guin1976" class="citation book cs1">Le Guin, Ursula K. (December 1976). The Word for World is Forest. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-425-07484-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-425-07484-6"><bdi>0-425-07484-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Word+for+World+is+Forest&rft.place=New+York%2C+New+York&rft.pub=Berkley+Publishing+Corporation&rft.date=1976-12&rft.isbn=0-425-07484-6&rft.aulast=Le+Guin&rft.aufirst=Ursula+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLe_Guin2017" class="citation book cs1">Le Guin, Ursula K. (2017). Hainish novels & Stories. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, New York: The Library of America. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781598535396" title="Special:BookSources/9781598535396"><bdi>9781598535396</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hainish+novels+%26+Stories&rft.place=New+York%2C+New+York&rft.pub=The+Library+of+America&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9781598535396&rft.aulast=Le+Guin&rft.aufirst=Ursula+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLocus1973" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110605231429/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula1973.html">"The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1973 Nebula Awards"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Locus_(magazine)" title="Locus (magazine)">Locus</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Nebula1973.html">the original</a> on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Locus&rft.atitle=The+Locus+Index+to+SF+Awards%3A+1973+Nebula+Awards&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.locusmag.com%2FSFAwards%2FDb%2FNebula1973.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNichollsClute2019" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Nicholls, Peter; Clute, John; Sleight, Graham, eds. (April 7, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/le_guin_ursula_k">"Le Guin, Ursula K."</a>. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Gollancz. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180426045452/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/le_guin_ursula_k">Archived</a> from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Le+Guin%2C+Ursula+K.&rft.btitle=The+Encyclopedia+of+Science+Fiction&rft.pub=Gollancz&rft.date=2018-04-07&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsf-encyclopedia.com%2Fentry%2Fle_guin_ursula_k&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFReid1997" class="citation book cs1">Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth (1997). Presenting Ursula Le Guin. New York, New York: Twayne. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8057-4609-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8057-4609-9"><bdi>0-8057-4609-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Presenting+Ursula+Le+Guin&rft.place=New+York%2C+New+York&rft.pub=Twayne&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-8057-4609-9&rft.aulast=Reid&rft.aufirst=Suzanne+Elizabeth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFsfadb2015" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfadb.com/Ursula_K_Le_Guin">"Ursula K. Le Guin Awards List"</a>. Science Fiction Awards Database. Retrieved 31 October 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Science+Fiction+Awards+Database&rft.atitle=Ursula+K.+Le+Guin+Awards+List&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfadb.com%2FUrsula_K_Le_Guin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSpivack1984" class="citation book cs1">Spivack, Charlotte (1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ursulakleguin00char">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1st ed.). <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8057-7393-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8057-7393-2"><bdi>0-8057-7393-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ursula+K.+Le+Guin&rft.place=Boston%2C+Massachusetts&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Twayne+Publishers&rft.date=1984&rft.isbn=0-8057-7393-2&rft.aulast=Spivack&rft.aufirst=Charlotte&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fursulakleguin00char&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWatson1975a" class="citation journal cs1">Watson, Ian (March 1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/watson5art.htm">"Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Studies" title="Science Fiction Studies">Science Fiction Studies</a>: 67–75.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science+Fiction+Studies&rft.atitle=Le+Guin%27s+Lathe+of+Heaven+and+the+Role+of+Dick%3A+The+False+Reality+as+Mediator&rft.pages=67-75&rft.date=1975-03&rft.aulast=Watson&rft.aufirst=Ian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depauw.edu%2Fsfs%2Fbackissues%2F5%2Fwatson5art.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWatson1975b" class="citation journal cs1">Watson, Ian (November 1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/7/watson7art.htm">"The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow""</a>. Science Fiction Studies. 2 (3): 231–237.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Science+Fiction+Studies&rft.atitle=The+Forest+as+Metaphor+for+Mind%3A+%22The+Word+for+World+is+Forest%22+and+%22Vaster+Than+Empires+and+More+Slow%22&rft.volume=2&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=231-237&rft.date=1975-11&rft.aulast=Watson&rft.aufirst=Ian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depauw.edu%2Fsfs%2Fbackissues%2F7%2Fwatson7art.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestfahl2009" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Westfahl, Gary</a> (20 December 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2009/12/all-energy-is-borrowed-review-of-avatar.html">"All Energy Is Borrowed: A Review of Avatar"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Locus_Online" class="mw-redirect" title="Locus Online">Locus Online</a>. Retrieved 30 July 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Locus+Online&rft.atitle=All+Energy+Is+Borrowed%3A+A+Review+of+Avatar&rft.date=2009-12-20&rft.aulast=Westfahl&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.locusmag.com%2FReviews%2F2009%2F12%2Fall-energy-is-borrowed-review-of-avatar.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWhite1999" class="citation book cs1">White, Donna R. (1999). Dancing With Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden house. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57113-034-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-57113-034-9"><bdi>1-57113-034-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dancing+With+Dragons%3A+Ursula+K.+Le+Guin+and+the+Critics&rft.place=Columbia%2C+South+Carolina&rft.pub=Camden+house&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=1-57113-034-9&rft.aulast=White&rft.aufirst=Donna+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom1986" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bloom" title="Harold Bloom">Bloom, Harold</a>, ed. (1986). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ursulakleguin00bloo">Ursula K. Le Guin (Modern Critical Views)</a> (1st ed.). New York, NY: Chelsea House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87754-659-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-87754-659-2"><bdi>0-87754-659-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ursula+K.+Le+Guin+%28Modern+Critical+Views%29&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Chelsea+House&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=0-87754-659-2&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fursulakleguin00bloo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCadden2005" class="citation book cs1">Cadden, Mike (2005). Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-99527-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-99527-2"><bdi>0-415-99527-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ursula+K.+Le+Guin+Beyond+Genre%3A+Fiction+for+Children+and+Adults&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-415-99527-2&rft.aulast=Cadden&rft.aufirst=Mike&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLatham2007" class="citation journal cs1">Latham, Rob (2007). "Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave Science Fiction". The Yearbook of English Studies. 37 (2): 103–119.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Yearbook+of+English+Studies&rft.atitle=Biotic+Invasions%3A+Ecological+Imperialism+in+New+Wave+Science+Fiction&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=103-119&rft.date=2007&rft.aulast=Latham&rft.aufirst=Rob&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLe_Guin1992" class="citation book cs1">Le Guin, Ursula K. (May 1992). The Language of the Night (revised ed.). HarperCollins. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-016835-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-016835-3"><bdi>978-0-06-016835-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Language+of+the+Night&rft.edition=revised&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=1992-05&rft.isbn=978-0-06-016835-3&rft.aulast=Le+Guin&rft.aufirst=Ursula+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Word+for+World+Is+Forest" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?32494">The Word for World Is Forest</a> title listing at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1130092004">.mw-parser-output .portal-bar{font-size:88%;font-weight:bold;display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:baseline}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-bordered{padding:0 2em;background-color:#fdfdfd;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;clear:both;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-related{font-size:100%;justify-content:flex-start}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-unbordered{padding:0 1.7em;margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-header{margin:0 1em 0 0.5em;flex:0 0 auto;min-height:24px}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;flex:0 1 auto;padding:0.15em 0;column-gap:1em;align-items:baseline;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content-related{margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-item{display:inline-block;margin:0.15em 0.2em;min-height:24px;line-height:24px}@media screen and (max-width:768px){.mw-parser-output .portal-bar{font-size:88%;font-weight:bold;display:flex;flex-flow:column wrap;align-items:baseline}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-header{text-align:center;flex:0;padding-left:0.5em;margin:0 auto}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-related{font-size:100%;align-items:flex-start}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;align-items:center;flex:0;column-gap:1em;border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;margin:0 auto;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content-related{border-top:none;margin:0;list-style:none}}.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.portal-bar-bordered,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.portal-bar-bordered,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+link+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+style+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+.navbox-styles+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+.navbox-styles+.sister-bar{margin-top:-1px}</style><div class="portal-bar noprint metadata noviewer portal-bar-bordered" role="navigation" aria-label="Portals"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Portals">Portals</a>:<ul class="portal-bar-content"><li class="portal-bar-item"><a href="/wiki/File:Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg/19px-Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg/29px-Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg/38px-Nuvola_apps_bookcase.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Portal:Books" title="Portal:Books">Books</a></li><li class="portal-bar-item"><a href="/wiki/File:Sf-userbox.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sf-userbox.png/19px-Sf-userbox.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sf-userbox.png/29px-Sf-userbox.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Sf-userbox.png/38px-Sf-userbox.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Portal:Science_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Science fiction">Science fiction</a></li></ul></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Works_by_Ursula_K._Le_Guin" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Template:Ursula K. Le Guin"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Template talk:Ursula K. Le Guin"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Ursula K. Le Guin"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Works_by_Ursula_K._Le_Guin" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Works by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography" title="Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Earthsea" title="Earthsea">Earthsea</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A_Wizard_of_Earthsea" title="A Wizard of Earthsea">A Wizard of Earthsea</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Tombs_of_Atuan" title="The Tombs of Atuan">The Tombs of Atuan</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Farthest_Shore" title="The Farthest Shore">The Farthest Shore</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehanu" title="Tehanu">Tehanu</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Other_Wind" title="The Other Wind">The Other Wind</a> (2001)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Word_of_Unbinding" title="The Word of Unbinding">The Word of Unbinding</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Rule_of_Names" title="The Rule of Names">The Rule of Names</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Dragonfly_(short_story)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dragonfly (short story) (page does not exist)">Dragonfly</a>" (1997)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Darkrose_and_Diamond&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Darkrose and Diamond (page does not exist)">Darkrose and Diamond</a>" (1999)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Daughter_of_Odren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Daughter of Odren (page does not exist)">The Daughter of Odren</a>" (2014)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Firelight_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="Firelight (short story)">Firelight</a>" (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea" title="Tales from Earthsea">Tales from Earthsea</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Books_of_Earthsea" title="The Books of Earthsea">The Books of Earthsea</a> (2018)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earthsea_(miniseries)" title="Earthsea (miniseries)">Earthsea (miniseries)</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_(film)" title="Tales from Earthsea (film)">Tales from Earthsea (film)</a> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earthsea_(universe)" title="Earthsea (universe)">Universe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_characters_in_Earthsea" title="List of characters in Earthsea">Characters</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ged_(Earthsea)" title="Ged (Earthsea)">Ged</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography#Earthsea_Revisioned" title="Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography">Earthsea Revisioned</a> (1993)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hainish_Cycle" title="Hainish Cycle">Hainish Cycle</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rocannon%27s_World" title="Rocannon's World">Rocannon's World</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planet_of_Exile" title="Planet of Exile">Planet of Exile</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Illusions" title="City of Illusions">City of Illusions</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness" title="The Left Hand of Darkness">The Left Hand of Darkness</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a> (1974)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Word for World Is Forest</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Ways_to_Forgiveness" title="Four Ways to Forgiveness">Four Ways to Forgiveness</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Telling" title="The Telling">The Telling</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Dowry_of_Angyar" title="The Dowry of Angyar">The Dowry of Angyar</a>" (1964)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Winter%27s_King" title="Winter's King">Winter's King</a>" (1969)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow" title="Vaster than Empires and More Slow">Vaster than Empires and More Slow</a>" (1971)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution" title="The Day Before the Revolution">The Day Before the Revolution</a>" (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shobies%27_Story" title="The Shobies' Story">The Shobies' Story</a> (1990)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Matter_of_Seggri" title="The Matter of Seggri">The Matter of Seggri</a>" (1994)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Man_of_the_People_(short_story)" title="A Man of the People (short story)">A Man of the People</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Karhide" title="Coming of Age in Karhide">Coming of Age in Karhide</a>" (1995)</li> <li>"<a href="/w/index.php?title=Mountain_Ways&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mountain Ways (page does not exist)">Mountain Ways</a>" (1996)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Old_Music_and_the_Slave_Women" title="Old Music and the Slave Women">Old Music and the Slave Women</a>" (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">Ansible</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Annals_of_the_Western_Shore" title="Annals of the Western Shore">Annals of the Western Shore</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Novels" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gifts_(novel)" title="Gifts (novel)">Gifts</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voices_(Le_Guin_novel)" title="Voices (Le Guin novel)">Voices</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powers_(novel)" title="Powers (novel)">Powers</a> (2007)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven" title="The Lathe of Heaven">The Lathe of Heaven</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Very_Far_Away_from_Anywhere_Else" title="Very Far Away from Anywhere Else">Very Far Away from Anywhere Else</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Heron" title="The Eye of the Heron">The Eye of the Heron</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malafrena" title="Malafrena">Malafrena</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Beginning_Place" title="The Beginning Place">The Beginning Place</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Always_Coming_Home" title="Always Coming Home">Always Coming Home</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_(novel)" title="Lavinia (novel)">Lavinia</a> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Short stories</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas" title="The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas">The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas</a>" (1973)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Diary_of_the_Rose" title="The Diary of the Rose">The Diary of the Rose</a>" (1976)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Wife%27s_Story" title="The Wife's Story">The Wife's Story</a>" (1982)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Paradises_Lost" title="Paradises Lost">Paradises Lost</a>" (2002)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Wind%27s_Twelve_Quarters" title="The Wind's Twelve Quarters">The Wind's Twelve Quarters</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orsinian_Tales" title="Orsinian Tales">Orsinian Tales</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Compass_Rose" title="The Compass Rose">The Compass Rose</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Gals_and_Other_Animal_Presences" title="Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences">Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Fisherman_of_the_Inland_Sea" title="A Fisherman of the Inland Sea">A Fisherman of the Inland Sea</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unlocking_the_Air_and_Other_Stories" title="Unlocking the Air and Other Stories">Unlocking the Air and Other Stories</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Birthday_of_the_World_and_Other_Stories" title="The Birthday of the World and Other Stories">The Birthday of the World</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Changing_Planes" title="Changing Planes">Changing Planes</a> (2003)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Children's books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catwings" title="Catwings">Catwings</a> (series) (1988–1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat_Dreams_(Le_Guin_book)" title="Cat Dreams (Le Guin book)">Cat Dreams</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Language_of_the_Night" title="The Language of the Night">The Language of the Night</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dancing_at_the_Edge_of_the_World" title="Dancing at the Edge of the World">Dancing at the Edge of the World</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lao_Tzu:_Tao_Te_Ching&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (page does not exist)">Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steering_the_Craft" title="Steering the Craft">Steering the Craft</a> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Hugo_Award_Best_Novella" title="Template:Hugo Award Best Novella"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Hugo_Award_Best_Novella" title="Template talk:Hugo Award Best Novella"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Hugo_Award_Best_Novella" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Hugo Award Best Novella"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella" title="Hugo Award for Best Novella">Best Novella</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella#Retro_Hugos" title="Hugo Award for Best Novella">Retro Hugos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Who_Goes_There%3F" title="Who Goes There?">Who Goes There?</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell" title="John W. Campbell">Don A. Stuart</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/If_This_Goes_On%E2%80%94" class="mw-redirect" title="If This Goes On—">If This Goes On—</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)" title="Waldo (short story)">Waldo</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Little_Prince" title="The Little Prince">The Little Prince</a> by <a href="/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry" title="Antoine de Saint-Exupéry">Antoine de Saint-Exupéry</a> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story)" title="Killdozer! (short story)">Killdozer!</a> by <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon" title="Theodore Sturgeon">Theodore Sturgeon</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a> by <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon" title="The Man Who Sold the Moon">The Man Who Sold the Moon</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Case_of_Conscience" title="A Case of Conscience">A Case of Conscience</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_Blish" title="James Blish">James Blish</a> (1954)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1968–1980</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Riders_of_the_Purple_Wage" title="Riders of the Purple Wage">Riders of the Purple Wage</a> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer" title="Philip José Farmer">Philip José Farmer</a> /<a href="/wiki/Dragonflight_(novel)" title="Dragonflight (novel)">Weyr Search</a> by <a href="/wiki/Anne_McCaffrey" title="Anne McCaffrey">Anne McCaffrey</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nightwings_(novella)" title="Nightwings (novella)">Nightwings</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Silverberg" title="Robert Silverberg">Robert Silverberg</a> (1969)</li> <li>Ship of Shadows by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ill_Met_in_Lankhmar" title="Ill Met in Lankhmar">Ill Met in Lankhmar</a> by <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Leiber" title="Fritz Leiber">Fritz Leiber</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Queen_of_Air_and_Darkness_(novella)" title="The Queen of Air and Darkness (novella)">The Queen of Air and Darkness</a> by <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a> (1972)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Word for World Is Forest</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In" title="The Girl Who Was Plugged In">The Girl Who Was Plugged In</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a> (1974)</li> <li>A Song for Lya by <a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/My_Name_Is_Legion_(Zelazny_stories)" class="mw-redirect" title="My Name Is Legion (Zelazny stories)">Home Is the Hangman</a> by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a> (1976)</li> <li>By Any Other Name by <a href="/wiki/Spider_Robinson" title="Spider Robinson">Spider Robinson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%3F" title="Houston, Houston, Do You Read?">Houston, Houston, Do You Read?</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stardance" title="Stardance">Stardance</a> by <a href="/wiki/Spider_Robinson" title="Spider Robinson">Spider Robinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Robinson" title="Jeanne Robinson">Jeanne Robinson</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Persistence_of_Vision_(short_story)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Persistence of Vision (short story)">The Persistence of Vision</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Varley_(author)" title="John Varley (author)">John Varley</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enemy_Mine_(novella)" title="Enemy Mine (novella)">Enemy Mine</a> by <a href="/wiki/Barry_B._Longyear" title="Barry B. Longyear">Barry B. Longyear</a> (1980)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1981–1990</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lost_Dorsai" title="Lost Dorsai">Lost Dorsai</a> by <a href="/wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson" title="Gordon R. Dickson">Gordon R. Dickson</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Saturn_Game" title="The Saturn Game">The Saturn Game</a> by <a href="/wiki/Poul_Anderson" title="Poul Anderson">Poul Anderson</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Souls_(story)" title="Souls (story)">Souls</a> by <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Russ" title="Joanna Russ">Joanna Russ</a> (1983)</li> <li>Cascade Point by <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Zahn" title="Timothy Zahn">Timothy Zahn</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Press_Enter" title="Press Enter">Press Enter</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_Varley_(author)" title="John Varley (author)">John Varley</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/24_Views_of_Mt._Fuji,_by_Hokusai" title="24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai">24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai</a> by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Zelazny" title="Roger Zelazny">Roger Zelazny</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilgamesh_in_the_Outback" title="Gilgamesh in the Outback">Gilgamesh in the Outback</a> by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Silverberg" title="Robert Silverberg">Robert Silverberg</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eye_for_Eye" title="Eye for Eye">Eye for Eye</a> by <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Winnebagos" title="The Last of the Winnebagos">The Last of the Winnebagos</a> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vorkosigan_Saga" title="Vorkosigan Saga">The Mountains of Mourning</a> by <a href="/wiki/Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> (1990)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1991–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Hemingway_Hoax" title="The Hemingway Hoax">The Hemingway Hoax</a> by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Haldeman" title="Joe Haldeman">Joe Haldeman</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain" title="Beggars in Spain">Beggars in Spain</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (1992)</li> <li>Barnacle Bill the Spacer by <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Shepard" title="Lucius Shepard">Lucius Shepard</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Down_in_the_Bottomlands" title="Down in the Bottomlands">Down in the Bottomlands</a> by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" title="Harry Turtledove">Harry Turtledove</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Views_of_Olduvai_Gorge" title="Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge">Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge</a> by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Resnick" title="Mike Resnick">Mike Resnick</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_Future#"The_Death_of_Captain_Future"" title="Captain Future">The Death of Captain Future</a> by <a href="/wiki/Allen_Steele" title="Allen Steele">Allen Steele</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_of_the_Dragon_(novella)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blood of the Dragon (novella)">Blood of the Dragon</a> by <a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a> (1997)</li> <li>...Where Angels Fear to Tread by <a href="/wiki/Allen_Steele" title="Allen Steele">Allen Steele</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oceanic_(novella)" title="Oceanic (novella)">Oceanic</a> by <a href="/wiki/Greg_Egan" title="Greg Egan">Greg Egan</a> (1999)</li> <li>The Winds of Marble Arch by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>The Ultimate Earth by <a href="/wiki/Jack_Williamson" title="Jack Williamson">Jack Williamson</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Vernor_Vinge#"Fast_Times_at_Fairmont_High"" title="The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge">Fast Times at Fairmont High</a> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coraline" title="Coraline">Coraline</a> by <a href="/wiki/Neil_Gaiman" title="Neil Gaiman">Neil Gaiman</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_(novella)" title="The Cookie Monster (novella)">The Cookie Monster</a> by <a href="/wiki/Vernor_Vinge" title="Vernor Vinge">Vernor Vinge</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Atrocity_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="The Atrocity Archives">The Concrete Jungle</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inside_Job_(novella)" title="Inside Job (novella)">Inside Job</a> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (2006)</li> <li>A Billion Eves by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Reed_(author)" title="Robert Reed (author)">Robert Reed</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_Seated_on_the_Ground" title="All Seated on the Ground">All Seated on the Ground</a> by <a href="/wiki/Connie_Willis" title="Connie Willis">Connie Willis</a> (2008)</li> <li>The Erdmann Nexus by <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Kress" title="Nancy Kress">Nancy Kress</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palimpsest_(novella)" title="Palimpsest (novella)">Palimpsest</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011–2020</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Objects" title="The Lifecycle of Software Objects">The Lifecycle of Software Objects</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Chiang" title="Ted Chiang">Ted Chiang</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Man_Who_Bridged_the_Mist" title="The Man Who Bridged the Mist">The Man Who Bridged the Mist</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kij_Johnson" title="Kij Johnson">Kij Johnson</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Soul" title="The Emperor's Soul">The Emperor's Soul</a> by <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson" title="Brandon Sanderson">Brandon Sanderson</a> (2013)</li> <li>Equoid by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stross" title="Charles Stross">Charles Stross</a> (2014)</li> <li>(No award given) (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Binti_(novella)" title="Binti (novella)">Binti</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nnedi_Okorafor" title="Nnedi Okorafor">Nnedi Okorafor</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Every_Heart_a_Doorway" title="Every Heart a Doorway">Every Heart a Doorway</a> by <a href="/wiki/Seanan_McGuire" title="Seanan McGuire">Seanan McGuire</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_Systems_Red" title="All Systems Red">All Systems Red</a> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries" title="The Murderbot Diaries">Artificial Condition</a> by <a href="/wiki/Martha_Wells" title="Martha Wells">Martha Wells</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War" title="This Is How You Lose the Time War">This Is How You Lose the Time War</a> by <a href="/wiki/Amal_El-Mohtar" title="Amal El-Mohtar">Amal El-Mohtar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Max_Gladstone" title="Max Gladstone">Max Gladstone</a> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2021–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Empress_of_Salt_and_Fortune" title="The Empress of Salt and Fortune">The Empress of Salt and Fortune</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nghi_Vo" title="Nghi Vo">Nghi Vo</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Psalm_for_the_Wild-Built" title="A Psalm for the Wild-Built">A Psalm for the Wild-Built</a> by <a href="/wiki/Becky_Chambers" title="Becky Chambers">Becky Chambers</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Where_the_Drowned_Girls_Go" title="Where the Drowned Girls Go">Where the Drowned Girls Go</a> by <a href="/wiki/Seanan_McGuire" title="Seanan McGuire">Seanan McGuire</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornhedge" title="Thornhedge">Thornhedge</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_Vernon" title="Ursula Vernon">T. Kingfisher</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&oldid=1258870815">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&oldid=1258870815</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1976_science_fiction_novels" title="Category:1976 science fiction novels">1976 science fiction novels</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1976_American_novels" title="Category:1976 American novels">1976 American novels</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Again,_Dangerous_Visions_short_stories" title="Category:Again, Dangerous Visions short stories">Again, Dangerous Visions short stories</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Fiction_portraying_humans_as_aliens" title="Category:Fiction portraying humans as aliens">Fiction portraying humans as aliens</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Hainish_Cycle" title="Category:Hainish Cycle">Hainish Cycle</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novella%E2%80%93winning_works" title="Category:Hugo Award for Best Novella–winning works">Hugo Award for Best Novella–winning works</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Novels_by_Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Category:Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin">Novels by Ursula K. Le Guin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Environmental_fiction_books" title="Category:Environmental fiction books">Environmental fiction books</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pastoral_science_fiction" title="Category:Pastoral science fiction">Pastoral science fiction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Novels_about_rape" title="Category:Novels about rape">Novels about rape</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Anti-war_novels" title="Category:Anti-war novels">Anti-war novels</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Forest_planets_in_fiction" title="Category:Forest planets in fiction">Forest planets in fiction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Novels_about_colonialism" title="Category:Novels about colonialism">Novels about colonialism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Novels_set_on_fictional_planets" title="Category:Novels set on fictional planets">Novels set on fictional planets</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description is different from Wikidata">Short description is different from Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Good_articles" title="Category:Good articles">Good articles</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 22 November 2024, at 02:18 (UTC).</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy policy">Privacy Policy</a>. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</a>, a non-profit organization.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-contact"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us">Contact Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul></ul> </div><script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-m4d5j","wgBackendResponseTime":1506,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"1.200","walltime":"1.339","ppvisitednodes":{"value":11688,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":148268,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":16500,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":19,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":3,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":126591,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":1,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 1183.513 1 -total"," 38.72% 458.205 154 Template:Sfn"," 14.12% 167.171 1 Template:Infobox_book"," 12.11% 143.380 1 Template:Infobox"," 9.56% 113.124 6 Template:Navbox"," 8.73% 103.307 1 Template:Ursula_K._Le_Guin"," 8.52% 100.887 6 Template:Cite_journal"," 7.02% 83.094 1 Template:Short_description"," 6.25% 73.971 161 Template:Main_other"," 5.88% 69.596 1 Template:ISBNT"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.776","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":7672138,"limit":52428800},"limitreport-logs":"anchor_id_list = table#1 {\n [\"CITEREFBarnhill2010\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFBloom1986\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFCadden2005\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFCummins1990\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFDavison-Vecchione_and_Seeger2023\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFHovanec1989\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFHugo2012\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFKirkus1976\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFLatham2007\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFLe_Guin1976\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFLe_Guin1992\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFLe_Guin2017\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFLocus1973\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFNichollsClute2019\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFReid1997\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFSpivack1984\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFWatson1975a\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFWatson1975b\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFWestfahl2009\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFWhite1999\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFsfadb2015\"] = 1,\n}\ntemplate_list = table#1 {\n [\"Blockquote\"] = 1,\n [\"Cite book\"] = 9,\n [\"Cite encyclopedia\"] = 1,\n [\"Cite journal\"] = 6,\n [\"Cite web\"] = 5,\n [\"DEFAULTSORT:Word for World is Forest, The\"] = 1,\n [\"Good article\"] = 1,\n [\"Harvid\"] = 8,\n [\"Hugo Award Best Novella\"] = 1,\n [\"Infobox book\"] = 1,\n [\"Isfdb title\"] = 1,\n [\"Portalbar\"] = 1,\n [\"Refbegin\"] = 1,\n [\"Refend\"] = 1,\n [\"Reflist\"] = 1,\n [\"Sfn\"] = 154,\n [\"Short description\"] = 1,\n [\"Ursula K. Le Guin\"] = 1,\n}\narticle_whitelist = table#1 {\n}\n"},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.codfw.main-f69cdc8f6-m4d5j","timestamp":"20241124164248","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"The Word for World Is Forest","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Word_for_World_Is_Forest","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q2447776","mainEntity":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q2447776","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\/static\/images\/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2005-01-24T06:53:11Z","dateModified":"2024-11-22T02:18:03Z","image":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/b\/bc\/WordWorldForest.jpg","headline":"science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972; first published in English as a book, 1976, presumably expanded"}</script> </body> </html>