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Sutty, l'Indienne, est envoyée par la confédération galactique sur une planète récemment contactée, Aka.
Aka connaît un équilibre fragile. La découverte de l'existence d'une civilisation galactique, l'Ekumen, a tiré Aka de sa culture demeurée statique depuis des millénaires.
Une société furieusement scientiste a entrepris de rattraper ce qu'elle tient pour son retard, et est allée jusqu'à éradiquer les anciens contes et livres, vecteurs de superstition selon ses dirigeants.
Sutty elle-même vient de la Terre, un monde qui a connu une violente réaction fondamentaliste et antiscientifique dont il s'extrait à peine. Peut-être, pour cette raison, est-elle la mieux placée pour retrouver et sauver ce qui peut l'être de la vieille culture contenue dans le Dit d'Aka.
Et réconcilier le passé et l'avenir.
Ce roman d'Ursula Le Guin, l'un des principaux auteurs américains de science-fiction et de fantasy, est suivi dans ce volume de Le nom du monde est forêt (Prix Hugo 1973) et d'un dossier critique dû à Gérard Klein.
Ces deux romans s'inscrivent dans le cycle de l'Ekumen qui comprend aussi La Cité des illusions, Le Monde de Rocannon et Planète d'exil, publiés dans la même collection, ainsi que La Main gauche de la nuit et Les Dépossédés qui ont également obtenu le Prix Hugo.
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noteworthy & awarded Science fiction, Hainish Cycle, resource conservation, rebellion, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Children's fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Ps3562.e42 w67 2010, 813/.54People
Athsheans, hilfs, Selver, Thele, Terran, Captain Davidson, Raj Lj(y)ubov, Creechies, Yumens, Hainish, Cetians, League of WorldsPlaces
Athshe, Sornol, Terra, World 41/New Tahiti, PrestnoTimes
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Le Dit d'Aka: suivi de Le nom du monde est forêt
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The word for world is forest
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Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning the ancient society.
Humans have learned interstellar travel from the Hainish (the origin-planet of all humanoid races, including Athsheans). Various planets have been expanding independently, but during the novel it’s 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 home.
The story occurs after The Dispossessed, where both the ansible & the League of Worlds are unrealised. Also well before Planet of Exile, where human settlers have learned to coexist. The 24th century has been suggested.
Terran colonists take over the planet locals call Athshe, meaning “forest,” rather than “dirt,” like their home planet Terra. They follow the 19th century model of colonization: felling trees, planting farms, digging mines & enslaving indigenous peoples. The natives are unequipped to comprehend this. They’re a subsistence race who rely on the forests & have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery or war. The invaders take their land without resistance until one fatal act sets rebellion in motion & changes the people of both worlds forever.
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