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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter)
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Subject: Re: short SF query - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 20-Sep-83 08:37:54 EDT
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I don't know what the original question was, but "The Word for World is Forest"
is by Ursula LeGuin, not Kate Wilhelm.  It's a novella that has appeared in
at least one of her collections and was re-issued as a whole book about a year
and a half ago.  (To get a reasonable size, they used a LOT of whitespace on
the pages, a large font, etc.; typical ripoff.)  TWFWIF is part of LeGuin's
Hainish series, the best-known (and best) member of which is "The Left Hand of
Darkness".  TWFWIF is LeGuin at her preachiest; some of it works, much of it
comes across as the novelization of every 70's ecology/peace/love manifesto
you ever saw.
							-- Jerry
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