The Telling

Ursula LeGuin's The Telling takes place on a planet that our Earth is headed toward. The planet of Aka is a corporate planet. It is all about consumerism. This is another of her books about the Ekumen.

Sutty travels to Aka from Earth. She is an Indian woman living in Vancouver, BC. She is grateful to leave her planet and what has become a religious planet. The government puts all non-believers (of their religion) into camps.

On Aka, people are forced to give up the old ways to become what past missionaries have described as the right way to be - producer-consumers.

Sutty finally get permission to leave the city and travel up river to a place that might hold on to the old ways of life. Will she find anyone who dares defy the law and continues the old ways?

LeGuin, Ursula K. (2000). The Telling. New York: Harcourt, Inc.