（外文电子版资料）Ursula K. LeGuin - The Word for World is Forest.pdfVIP

file:///F|/rah/Ursula%20LeGuin/Le%20Guin,%20Ursula%20K%20-%20The%20Word%20For%20World%20is%20ForestUC.txt FOR JEAN Who Went Ahead First appeared in the Anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison THE WORD FOR WORLD IS FOREST A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author PRINTING HISTORY Berkley edition / December 1976 Tenth printing / April 1983 Eleventh printing / April 1984 All rights reserved. Copyright © 1972 by Ursula K. Le Gum. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in pan, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. ISBN: 0-425-07484-6 A BERKLEY BOOK « TM 757,375 The name BERKLEY and the stylized B with design are trademarks belonging to Berkley Publishing Corporation. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ^ One Two pieces of yesterday were in Captain David-sons mind when he woke, and he lay looking at diem in die darkness for a while. One up: the new shipload of women had arrived. Believe it or not. They were here, in Centralville, twenty-seven lightyears from Earth by NAFAL and four hours from Smith Camp by hopper, the second batch of breeding females for the New Tahiti Colony, all sound and clean, 212 head of prime human stock. Or prime enough, anyhow. One down: the report from Dump Island of crop failures, massive erosion, a wipe-out. The line of 212 buxom beddable breasty little figures faded from Davidsons mind as he saw rain pouring down onto ploughed dirt, churning it to mud, thinning the mud to a red broth that ran down rocks into the rainbeaten sea. The erosion had begun before he left Dump Island to run Smith Camp, and being gifted with an exceptional visual memory, the kind they called eidetic, he could recall it now all too clearly. It looked tike I that bigdome Kees was right and you had to leave a lot of trees standing where you planned to put farms. But he still c