"The Eye of the Heron"

1978 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “The Eye of the Heron.” Millennial Women. Ed. Virginia Kidd (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978), 88-209. Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp. L, PSt

Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia. Female author.