Dec 22, 2009
The Word for World Is Forest concerns the struggle between colonists from Terra (Earth), who are searching for resources for their now-desert planet, and the natives of the planet Athshe, who are striving to preserve the forest ecology upon which their culture depends. The most extreme representative of the Terran point of view is Captain Don Davidson, who considers himself a “world-tamer.” He sees his task as destroying Athshe’s “primeval murk and savagery and ignorance.” Davidson is opposed by Raj Lyubov, an anthropologist who has been studying the...
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