![]() ![]() ![]() With powerful themes of freedom, society and the natural world’s influence on competition and co-operation, THE DISPOSSESSED is a true classic of the 20th century. Initially feted, Shevek soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. So he leaves his homeland, hoping to find a place of more liberty and tolerance. The Cetians have been visited by people from other planets, including Terra (Earth) and Hain. The sixth, The Dispossessed (1974), is the earliest novel chronologically in the Hainish Cycle. Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time – but there are those who are jealous of his work, and will do anything to block him. It was part of the anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, and only published as a separate book in 1976. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on…’ Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. It did not look important – even a child could climb it. ‘ Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power’ OBSERVER ‘The book I wish I had written … It’s so far away from my own imagination, I’d love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin’ Roddy Doyle ![]() But Sheveks work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he. ‘A well told tale signifying a good deal one to be read again and again’ THE TIMES It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. One of the very best must-read novels of all time – with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle ![]()
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