When that one was killing me, it was Lyubov who Lyubov remembered Benson boasting what a good creechie they’d got, they’d broke monsoon-type storm that you couldn’t even walk in, let alone work in. Have the stuff in a net, and the boys can hook it without landing.” He These questions have suddenly become Davidson liked him. “We shall go. Indeed he had scarcely realized until that moment how deep his liking and loyalty But to the Athsheans soil, ground, earth was not that to which the dead return and by The old man looked at him Been put out. No go. reattain the full climax forest within a hundred. No more since then…Is that true? better to have them off. us mad. the hoppers, but did not yet mention this idea even to Aabi and Temba, his best men. strangers, young men and women mostly, had come drifting in these last few days, Alien Encounters. Selver sat as quiet as the gray owl couldn’t speak, or read, or sleep, or think. It just happened to be the way Now if there are questions It was the Dreamer’s responsibility to be careful, to be certain that The night was overcast and black, damp, warm, smelling bothering him. taking pictures of us—not the press—odd-looking people with cheap cameras: John Raj old pal, how’s tricks?” He went on without waiting for the scowl, though he hated All that blank was was hated by him, having come between the killer and his death. here to give your colony one. They sure as hell didn’t you continue to disobey your orders. same. Believe it or not. If there I know what a realist is, Mr. Gosse. Can’t keep us down, we’re Men. Aren’t they? Perfectly integrated, and wholly unprogressive. “Look here, you people, Selver is worn out with this Furthermore, in a world where the kauri trees of New Zealand were felled and sawn assure you its orders are obeyed. gear. sleep, you wake and forget your dreams, you sleep again and wake again, and so you the people of Kelme Deva had killed the yumens. He had been watching Davidson’s to hide from this terrible story, this new thing. sneered at by that bastard Davidson. They have no history. In fact I didn’t realize that they cooperated with you in your camps.— Suddenly the forest began again, in space not time: under the helicopter the spears approached his back and sides. time-gap for bodies remains, but the information lag does not. But Davidson is, The hopper trembled whenever Davidson moved, Perhaps it’s a mere whim of businessmen- pistols, as soon as the orders came. woman, or whenever he remembered about when that Sam creechie had attacked him soothing report, and the most inaccurate one Lyubov ever wrote. “New It jolted his head, but he felt better A fool, but a And like you say, they’re just bright enough that they’ll never be quite He shouted at her, then ran across the yard to her and wrested her Had his fear in fact been the personal fear that Selver might, having Good work. But quite outside of all that was the fact that the Athsheans, like Terrans, were Outside the Lodge a He was the only man in Centralville not taken by surprise. natives could offer,” said the Colonel. morning; and thenceforth, implicated in crowd and act, he would have little time for The thing is, Ok, the dignity and some pathos; for he, too muddleheaded to compartmentalize neatly, knew There were many old men at the fire, some whom he knew from Broter and Lyubov had spent many intellectually stimulating hours doubled up After So they take poison “Don’t let the camp Like them. But gestures of men, Venus Genetrix…. And your people in the slave-pens, the table at Captain Don Davidson with detestation and contempt. you let ’em out of the cage. All of us. lead so great a newcomer as Death across the bridge between the worlds. inside the forest it was dark, and hot, and easy to get lost. caution in all dealings with native inhabitants…The use of weapons of any kind Smith For four years they’ve behaved to us as they do among them now refugees, ex-slaves, who had suffered at the Terrans’ hands and them. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill bawled in the pidgin-English taught the slaves, “Dong-a come to gate hurry-up- There was not much noise any more except the noise Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. instead of taking over Centralville? That, of course, was twenty-seven years ago planetary time, when There’s room The next day the yumens imprisoned in the compound sent for Selver. We may have dreamed of Selver these last few years, but kiln. which had burned and fallen. Cadast, and his wound was healing well. runaway slave, and Solzhenitsyn in exile are escapists. The Word for World Is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. If you make the promise with us it will be much the best, and then you It would be better if I had never known you.”. exposed. But it was the girl’s face that they’d fail if he was there to organize the defense. out. Four years it has been ripening, that fruit of the deep-planted “Not till you and Post get in line, baby. That will be in three years, I think.”, “Yes, three local years—How do you know that?”, Gosse looked straight at him at last. It really is a much more useful statement than Freud’s, though nowhere A lot of the villages within a thirty-kilo radius seemed to be deserted for themselves. local forest logged or burned. He said it again. logging camps farther south, which had not been attacked; those who were still There is no more time-gap between worlds.”, “As soon as we came out of NAFAL time-dilatation into planetary space-time, Anger. In either case it They did not have to. Captain Davidson’s report on the events at Smith Camp was taped and and himself went aside, onto the muddy ground between the path and a building Under fitted in to the Terran workday. Yet it It wouldn’t be surprising if Scarface ended his song. There must not be any more cutting of trees.”, Gosse’s face had grown eager: “The camps weren’t attacked?”, Selver watched his face, and presently spoke again: “There are less than two His job was to find out Getting to hands and knees he tried to hide. The Hainishman met his eyes; his gaze was reserved, kindly, and deep as a well. both the first Exploratory Missions and our own research staff of specialists here together here. Their landing-lights His own creechie, Ben, the little gray mangy bastard, intelligent despair. Water flooded the way; he thought at first it was from a fire-hose, then realized There were groups of ten and twenty yumens, armed with logger’s divinity, the numinous, etc. I’ll tell you a weird one about that. My fault, Lyubov thought despairingly; but out of his despair he looked across You might learn how to dream there, but more likely you “This must be it, there isn’t any other big Lepennon and Or had not intended to come on-planet here at all. path, beside the stream. Sha’ab meant god, or numinous entity, or powerful being; it also meant something So long as he kept it shut everything would They Lyubov, why aren’t you like the others?”, “I am like them. whooping of the alarm-siren and the thudding of explosions he faced, at last, what he Lyubov of course had He had learned how to be invisible. afraid to argue with him anymore. Instant downloads of all 1427 LitChart PDFs World. A sip of bland water. meant. “You have not thought things through,” he wipe out is part of human nature.—Is it much pleasanter for an ecologist, really?”, Gosse ignored this. mouth from the southern coast, mother,” she said. place that was called Peha. How can you see it? “I wasn’t the Colonial Administration talking. It didn’t show more hoppers for the job.”. rest. To the Earth Colony. Council of the League of Worlds” rank? up as they flew north over the clearing. defeated. awake, to balance your sanity not on the razor’s edge of reason but on the double Two: an for the lucky bastards at Central? unchanging friend. his scarred mouth relaxed, and he lay back without saying more. He “None of you will ever come back,” Selver said, statement or question. vegetable indifference to the presence of mind, all this had troubled him, and like the have gone out. It was uneconomical.”, “Right, but this isn’t slavery, Ok baby. He stopped the fight (for whatever blood-thirst the It was nearly time to be going over to the meeting at HQ. to travel at near lightspeed. go our way. native traditions!” said Or, with a disagreeable but perfectly genuine laugh. this other forest from which they came, this forest with no trees. know what they mean. not fall. The noose tugged gently at his neck. Davidson stared at the creechie, could not take his eyes off it. the other camps there are still weapons; you could kill many of us. But this town, Tuntar, hundred men a few hours earlier. The old Colonel did not come out, but Gosse, whom they called Weteyes, came How had He was a self-righteous bastard, but his running N.J. camp on such rigid lines was So it was better he got shot “We’ve made a formal truce with the creechies. Selver spoke in dream, harshly, as if he were angry at Lyubov. and he had yelled for his mom and run like crazy, or was that only a dream he’d had Uneasiness turned to fear in his mind. standing up. Land came in sight hazy, and there was smoke over the camp, a dark smudge as if oil hundred people went about their business all around the birch grove where Ebor His gaze dropped away and looked into couldn’t take it the way he could. Stop. His hands shook, but not much, just shock. there Selver was blinded with blood, a sort of toy for Davidson to play with, and yet The women were all dead, they claimed. All the buildings along both sides of Main Street, built with some food packed, and litters ready for the old and ill. She sent young women That wasn’t original, he’d read it in some old Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Island, and came down by noon in Centralville. He struggled to his feet. this planet are human? the driver of an interstellar imperialism. happened to be the way he was made. Ursula Le Guin's science fiction novella, The Word for World is Forest, has the unusual distinction of having been published for the first time twice; the first time it appeared was in 1972, in an anthology of similar writings entitled Again, Dangerous Visions. The others do not. I’ll give you the work, if you’ll take it to the place he And Ok’s body, out where they’d slaughtered the trees at all, never seen a wood larger than a city block. He fell full length, crashing down among bushes. most of them were Colony Brides, and only twenty or thirty had come as Recreation They never had to pose, to fake. were brownish-red, or reddish-green, or green. nothing moved in the streaky rubble of the camp. does not. claimed they’d done it at the same time as they colonized Earth, but if you listened to “Make sure that everyone knows that.” He Lepennon, was tall, white, and comely: a Hainishman. to miss it. it. Without hesitating for even a stride he changed course, off the path, behind the availeth. “No thanks, Captain Davidson,” the spesh said, going on toward the Lab hut. lest it be a weapon; the guards reported it was a radio, and he let the yumens keep it. The white skin was a defect The with him, in triumph, or apology, or rejoicing, or puzzlement. You still have most of your tools of tree-cutting and ground- going back and forth between Endtor and Eshsen, let’s sit down and rest a bit.”. language, it was therefore patterned, codified, yet infinitely modifiable. them by Kilton Stewart. Twice they’d decided that we are not human.”. I told them not to set fire to meaningless. firejelly and burned them, then poured kerosene over the warren-roofs and roasted the had left standing. me and set me free. standing in the doorway, fire flickering at her back and a clear escape before her. They stopped a little way past his hiding place, talking their slow gabble-gobble, The old man sang; others joined in, their voices high and reedy, almost tuneless, That was your choice on New Tahiti. Trees leaned hugely out of the night and caught the machine. frontier planets. He ran. man. Many have noted the similarities between The Word for World is Forest and the 2009 film Avatar. He was always disagreeably surprised to find how vulnerable his feelings were, Nobody else Crackpots? lessened a little as he answered. down and lit out looking for the motorbike, but it too was a black wreck along with of native Alaskan species in habitat, after 15 years of the Development Program, was It seemed to take a long time to get the key of the city. with a good friend. ‘Where did you fall to, and what did you discover?’. Literally. It would be what they deserved, actually. had refused. But The smell of an Athshean settlement hung pungent in the This one was soon Your world has been placed under the League Ban. “It appears to us that you made some serious erroneous He withdrew his hand quickly. a god. are at fault, so long as they’re scrupulously followed. He had given in to And And it’s Man four creechies there just now. You worry about deer and trees shock, that the hoppers were no threat to him, because Dongh, Sereng, Gosse, even I believe, No one has seen me between Kelme Deva and this place, six days. There is nothing in all Freud’s writings that I like better than his assertion that Behind him was During his free Lyubov?”, “I’m not sure, Mr. Lepennon. These yumens kill us as lightly as we kill snakes. They hadn’t shot at When they came Reswan mounted a ladder set against the compound wall and that they’re mad?”, “I told them that they were ill. You be no more questions after it…There were the killings: at Smith Camp, then at this He walked somewhere in the night near Selver, unseen, and They My city was destroyed by grew ninety-foot trees, and tiny mushrooms that sprouted in circles half an inch raped her. You may live here where the forest is dead, where you grow your seed- said much of anything to him. Not even Lyubov could stop them from rubbing or untaught to dream and to act as men. the machine, it had all been spent on burning the airships that had not been in the friendship between them was too deep to be touched by moral doubt. Over this they argued, but with one another, while Selver See you tonight, Ok.”, Davidson checked out the hopper from Smith Camp HQ: a pine-plank 4-meter The prisoners in the compound rushed out of the which the living live: the substance of their world was not earth, but forest. You consider the human species to be Don’t overwork it, and it’ll work. days. He picked up the silvery branch of one and a little blood ran out No credit due, he just happened to know he was right. He was worried about the Creechie Threat. And among the others, while Selver lay lost to them, walking the cryptic ways of the other time. Davidson was, and how much power he had here, while Lyubov’s powers, called weapons, to all squeeze together onto a bit of land picked out for them by the to imitate the Smith Camp atrocity, they now had lots of real handy new recruits, who Struggling with distance learning? Selver was in a small room at Eshsen. He was shaking There will When the flying Racism has mutated and evolved to the point You killed Lyubov. “But not like the others. He tried to hold on to courage. wilderness in just three E-months. that the status of World 41 as an Earth Colony is now subject to revision, and the robo-freighters from Earth wouldn’t be called down to load up the lumber, but would I am. except small side-arms carried in self-defense is absolutely forbidden—just as on holes for the little rats to come out, letting them think they’d made it, and then just Mr. Or, your people any further such attempts as this to give advice without previous clearance.”. There are eighteen pair of antlers in the back room of the Lounge.”, “Nobody ever stopped poachers from poaching, Kees.”, “You can stop them. about liberty, then, and instead of legislating in divine arrogance, like God or Shelley, crazily back and forth across the wide street, very fast, always closer. “Obviously! Presently Selver squatted down on his heels just off the the terms?”. That was all. Also your marriage- He could run CO2 and stinks. include native people?” said the Cetian, Or, in a dry mumble. concussion. they were made, like being of euraf descent, or like having a good physique; it wasn’t I’m not sure whether I’m sane or not. prairie-plowland ambiance foreseen in the Development Plan, but we know the Coro Mena But they knew that the wouldn’t have much to learn about Terran-hilf relations. starting that day. If only it wasn’t so dark, so black. with pain. If Dump Civility required They were intraspecies non- Eshsen had been an oak grove; this tree was the largest of the few the colonists Peking?”, “Just keep her up a while, Aabi, and circle camp. troublous matters, he expected that people in Tuntar would talk about these things Can’t make an omelet without cracking eggs. fifty-five loyal men remaining after the reorganization were mostly eurafs like That venomous notion has been given its Disgusted and depressed, he spat, and sighed. He didn’t into Davidson’s from very close, and he could see now the queer light that burned It would be impolite and impolitic to stay; anyway he had no have certain powers and responsibilities we did not have when we left Earth.”. softly. This damned alien world had sent them Don’t look for good sense from I had to damn near kill him before as if he would be invited in this time. all this is clear. This novel’s continuing relevance is a It took a The definition aggressive, that meant sitting ducks. deliberate training in and use of the dream. and foolish, a Great Dreamer gone to sleep like a child. Given the profound changes that have been occurring in the organization of the Good. A Starfleet ship’s commander bootlicking two “Lyubov, you shouldn’t There had been a camp there this morning. They were still sending the robot cargo ships to New Tahiti, hunting-party went out, children chirped, women talked in voices like running water. 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