Comments on: The Word for World is Forest http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/12/12/the-word-for-world-is-forest/ A Life In Science Fiction Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Rust http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/12/12/the-word-for-world-is-forest/#comment-548 Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:01:39 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/?p=387#comment-548 Thanks so much for your insights into Le Guin’s remarkably timeless novel. Unfortunately it remains relevant because indigenous cultures remain under constant threat from the spread of global capitalism and it’s right hand: militarism. Not that i’m biased.

]]> By: Jordan http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/12/12/the-word-for-world-is-forest/#comment-547 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:04:55 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/?p=387#comment-547 Oh! One of my very favorite UKLG books! Such a gem. The ideas of gods as those who manifest ideas from dreams to waking is such a lovely, much-more-subtle variation on the Lathe of Heaven. Also, I love the idea that gods are both mythic and tragic; by facilitating an idea’s jump from dreaming to waking, they become kind of stuck between the two worlds of inspiration-dream and manifestation-waking. A certainly bittersweet take on making one’s dreams come true!

]]> By: Kate Maddalena http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2010/12/12/the-word-for-world-is-forest/#comment-540 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:57:29 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/?p=387#comment-540 “The Little Green Men”? Haha! Love it.

Another mirror-held-up-to Vietnam classic: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

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