Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella

When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin’s ambitious and experimental novel Always Coming Home , a tapestry of interwoven stories, poems, histories, myths, and anthropological reports from the fictional Kesh society, included one chapter from a short novel called Dangerous People by Arravna, or Wordriver, which Le Guin had “translated” from the Kesh, the invented language of an invented people who “might be going to have lived a long, long time from now” in a post-apocalyptic Napa