A short story by Ursula Le Guin, publisched in 1974.
A short story, fairly easy to read, set in a similar universe as The Dispossed and many other books from the Hainish cycle.
The story is about a conflict. On one side the old, military, very colonist-styled earth colonists, who rape, enslave and abuse the native population while taking their land and trees. And on the other side an native race of peaceful dreamers who knew no hate before the humans came. The book goes into detail on how both cultures operate, the natives having a mixture of females ruling and males informing, the humans being a pure male oriented race where women are little less then tools/o bjects and not to be understood. It then goes on, how some of the natives learn hate by their abuse, the murder and rapes of their partners and how they plan to solve their problem.
It’s an intresting analis how an off-world conflict could go wrong. Considering aspects as no long term contact with the home-world and major cultural-misunderstanding and the racism following from it.
It’s a nice short story, well written. The only major problem I have with the book is the one time mention of use of tabaco by the natives (besides the extreme drug-abuse by the humans of halucigens and weed), and a few pages later a full-color advertisement of a sigaret brand. But I supose that could be blamed on the 70′s.