The Word for World is Forest

A prescient novella about an interstellar logging colony, written by perhaps our greatest practitioner of "literary sci-fi" * Guardian *
Its relevance hasn't decreased in our time of climate catastrophe and gun violence * New York Times *
Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society - technological, political, economic - and who fight courageously to remain whole' * New York Times Book Review *
Le Guin's most pleasing efforts are spent on the Athshean culture: a non-technological forest society with an interesting division of sexual roles and an intense development of the capacity for dreaming * Kirkus Reviews *
A funny, humane, heartbreaking story about colonialism -- Michael Moreci * Tor.com *
It's a compact tale, a masterclass by a powerful writer who fashions a lean narrative where others might have produced a much larger, bloated tome, and yet for all the brevity Le Guin delivers not just a narrative but a believable alien world and society in short yet compelling scenes. * FORBIDDEN PLANET *
The slender book is fairly simplistic, but it's still compelling and thought-provoking. * SFX *