“Two pieces of yesterday were in captain Davidson’s mind when he woke, and he lay looking at them in the 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 heads of prime human stock.”
— The Word for World Is Forest,
Ursula K. Le Guin ·
picked by Mark,
