Opinion on The Word for World Is Forest (1972) and related work
- Spin-off: The Dispossessed (1974)
- Prequel: “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974)
The Word for World Is Forest (1972
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Ursula K. Le Guin (writer).
References here: “And Seven Times Never Kill Man” (1975).
‣ The Dispossessed (1974)
Ursula K. Le Guin (writer).
Part of the Hainish Cycle; the chronology is unclear. The first anarcho-syndicalist utopia, and as such it is appropriately ambiguous, something the subtitle makes explicit.
References here: Always Coming Home (1985), The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993), “Bar Association” (1996), Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (2018).
‣‣ “The Day Before the Revolution” (1974)
Ursula K. Le Guin (writer).
Read in 2019.
A day in the life of Odo herself. The last day; a day much like any other.
Despite being written so early, it reads like the last Earthsea stories.