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''The Word for World Is Forest'' is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1972 in the anthology Again, Dangerous Visions and published as a separate book in 1976. It is part of Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. ==Setting== Several centuries in the future, humans from Earth have established a logging colony and military base named "New Tahiti" on Athshe, 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. Humans have learned interstellar travel from the people of Hain (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including the Athsheans, despite their appearance). The various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it is learned that the 'League of All Worlds' has been formed. News arrives via an ansible, a new discovery. Previously they had been cut off, 27 light-years from Earth, meaning a 54-year delay in question and response. Athshe's plants and animals are similar to those of Earth, placed there by the Hainish people in their first wave of colonisation that also settled Earth. The Cetian visitor also states categorically that the native humans "came from the same, original, Hainish stock". It is not explained why they are green-furred and only one meter tall. Other distinctive humans such as the Gethenians are said to have been produced by genetic manipulation by the ancient Hainish colonisers. The events of the novel occur after ''The Dispossessed'', where both the ansible and the League of Worlds are unrealised dreams. Also well before ''Planet of Exile'', where human settlers have learned to coexist. A date in the 24th century has been suggested.〔(Le Guin's Lathe of Heaven and the Role of Dick: The False Reality as Mediator ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Word for World Is Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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