The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin
Originally published: May 1974
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Genres: Science fiction, Novel, and Utopian fiction
Awards: Locus Award for Best Novel (1975)
Cover artist: Fred Winkowski
Followed by: Four Ways to Forgiveness
Pages: 341 (first edition)
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The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish ...
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It enclosed the universe, leaving. Anarres outside, free. Looked at from the other side, the wall enclosed Anarres: the whole planet was inside it, a great ...
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A book with multiple layers of meaning. In the anarchist society of Anarres and the lavish capitalism of A-Io, the Urrastian nation Shevek visits, it is easy to ...