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Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.
 

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If this is paradise, why are you running away?

Date of Review:  Sep 13, 2007
The Bottom Line: A Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451. Science fiction is known for its dystopias. But Le Guin's utopia may be better than all of them.
Review: It's appropriate that my library's copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed was donated by the professor, now deceased, who helped me see science fiction as literature as well as recreation. Appropriate because Le Guin herself has brought so...
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The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin

Date of Review:  Jul 29, 2001
The Bottom Line: Fantastic "other worlds" novel, describing a society without possessions, and its struggle for a place in the universe
Review: The dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin is one of the most comprehensive descriptions of an alien world ever achieved in a single book.

We follow the story of Shevek, theoretical physicist, who has spent most of his life developing a root...
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A Stranger, but both worlds are strange...

Date of Review:  Aug 8, 2001
The Bottom Line: A good tale, that is a bit more thought-provoking than at first glance.
Review: Societies design us, for better or worse. Within the attitudes manifest in a nation's ethics, or moral viewpoint we are molded in how we think, how we behave. The question becomes, though, what of those within the community, or society that are...
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Authors Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Hamilton-Paterson, James, Times Literary Supplement: "Urras is far more like America than it is unlike, while Anarres's closest parallel would be with the China that Western utopians like to believe in...Miss LeGuin does not pretend that socialism can remove all the horrors of human existence, but shows how they could be much lessened by a society structured so as not to indulge overweening individualism. Her Urras, too, is more than a bugbear world of siren attractions. It is at war with itself and with its own contradictions...'The Dispossessed' is largely a novel of conversations. Often of sixth-form polemics. It is written with thought, care--even love--but its tone is one of unrelieved earnestness."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Perennial (September 01, 2003)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060512750
 

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