With the disclaimer that it's been ages since I read it, The Word for World is Forest is really good.
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Several centuries in the future, humans from Earth have established a logging colony and military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have formed a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence and wisdom, turning the ancient society upside down.
Hello stranger! :-) I would recommend Changing Planes.. It's a book of short stories of different worlds you can only get to by being truly bored at airports. They're quick and easy and very interesting (linguistics/anthropology stuff). I also love The Disposessed. I could never get into Earthsea, but I'm not into fantasy so much as sci-fi.
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I think I have that one!
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(drive-by book recs?!)
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