@booklet {11591, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Way Things Were{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {256-72}, publisher = {: Forest Avenue Press}, address = {Portland, OR}, abstract = {

First contact story set in the near future that is somewhat more dystopian than the present.\ Concerned with colonialism, when is violence justified, gender issues, and other questions raised by Le Guin\’s work, particularly \“The Word for World Is Forest\” (1972).

}, keywords = {Queer author, US author}, isbn = {9781942436485}, author = {Jonah Barrett}, editor = {Susan DeFreitas} }