_The Word for World Is Forest_ is a sf novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in '76, based on a '72 Hainish Cycle novella. Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants
The World Within the World
β Scribed by Steven Utley
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 11 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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