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Ursula K Le Guin, "The Dispossessed"


Ursula K Le Guin, "The Dispossessed"
Discusses this science fiction novel's political and social themes and messages, anarchy, communism and idealism vs. realism.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) | 1 source | 1995 United States


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"THE DISPOSSESSED by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)

The story is told in alternating time periods: present, past, present, then mostly past leading to the present.
In a section of the Milky Way Galaxy several light years from Earth, a genius 38-year-old physicist named Shevek is transported from his native home, the anarchist society moon of Anarres, to the mother capitalist and sexist planet of Urras. (Women must shave their heads and are forbidden male jobs.) There he will be awarded the Seo Oen prize in physics nine years late for his book "Principles of Simultaneity". He will also live among other scientists at Ieu Eun University while polishing his theory, the idea of which has two basic applications: instantaneous communication through light years ..."

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