“The Way Things Were”
Title | “The Way Things Were” |
Year for Search | 2021 |
Authors | Barrett, Jonah |
Secondary Authors | DeFreitas, Susan |
Secondary Title | Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin |
Pagination | 256-72 |
Date Published | 2021 |
Publisher | : Forest Avenue Press |
Place Published | Portland, OR |
ISBN Number | 9781942436485 |
Keywords | Queer author, US author |
Annotation | 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). |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The queer author is an actor, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. |
Full Text | 2021 Barrett, Jonah. “The Way Things Were.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 256-72. PSt 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). The queer author is an actor, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. |