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Ursula Le Guin. What should I start with, of her books?

I'm stepping outside of my comfort zone of kid fiction for a bit.

Date: 2009-10-23 03:46 pm (UTC)
gloss: superhero hit over the head with a book (academia)
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With the disclaimer that it's been ages since I read it, The Word for World is Forest is really good.

From Wikipedia:
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.

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