Sunday, 24 September 2023

Ursula Le Guin - "The word for world is forest"

Short book about a world far from Earth (Terra), colonized by humanoids, with all the same stereotypes as per old




And the translator is the god. Selver had brought a new word into the language of his people. He had done a new deed. The word, the deed, murder. Only a god could lead so great a newcomer as Death across the bridge between the worlds.


Dongh was worried by these multiple-choice futures, but Lyubov enjoyed them. In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.