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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for World Is Forest (Paperback, 2022, Orion Publishing Group, Hachette UK) 4 stars

When a world of peaceful aliens is conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably …

The Word for World is Forest

4 stars

This book is good on the whole, but quite heavy-handed, and I feel that sci-fi depictions of colonialism run the risk of distracting from understandings of real-world colonialism, rather than elucidating anything. Not my favorite from Le Guin, but I'm happy to have read it.