@booklet {5308, title = {"The Wild Girls"}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction }, volume = {26.3 (314) }, year = {2002}, note = {

Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus \“Staying Awake While We Read\” and \“A Lovely Art\” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87.\ 

}, month = {March 2002}, pages = {8-12, 14-16, 18-32}, abstract = {

Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018)} }