The Telling
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
There have been eighty requests to send an Observer into the hinterlands of the planet Aka to study the natives. Much to everyone’s surprise, the eighty first request is granted, and Observer Sutty is sent upriver to Okzat Ozkat, a small city in the foothills of Rangma, to talk to the remnants in hiding of a cult practising a banned religion. On Aka, everything that was wr….Read More
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