![]() ![]() ![]() You know that there’s something different in what she’s describing and can rely on her explaining that difference in due course. It is also a style that is spot-on for describing unfamiliar places and cultures. Her style of writing has a compelling clarity, a directness and a deliberateness that help propel her fiction forward. I adore nearly everything that Ursula Le Guin has written. Beyond that, The Dispossessed is a poetically beautiful novel that is as political as any non science-fiction book you could name. Yes, there’s something arguably scientific in the form of ‘the Principle of Simultaneity’, the life work of the central character Shevek. ![]() Yes, it’s a story set on an imaginary world (the paired planet of Urras and its moon Anarres). Placing this book in the ‘science-fiction’ category probably deters many people from reading it. ![]()
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