SOURCE: Reid, Suzanne Elizabeth. “Connecting the Hainish Dance and Collective Power: The Left Hand of Darkness, The Lathe of Heaven, The Word for the World Is Forest, and The Dispossessed.” In Presenting Ursula K. Le Guin, pp. 49-66. New York: Twayne, 1997.
In the following excerpt, Reid outlines the plot and major themes of The Word for the World Is Forest and views the volume to be a collection of stories challenging the morality of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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