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There was no God here; he belonged to people, and where there were no people there was no God. […] Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.

The Eye of the Heron

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1978 · read 2024-02-06

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Setting: On a planet with a human population at one just one point, exiles from earth who arrived in two waves: First a group of criminals from South America (many thousands, though their origin isn't commonly known among them), then decade