Hugo Award Best Novel Winner
The Dispossessed
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Summary
A brilliant physicist named Shevek travels from his impoverished anarchist moon to the wealthy capitalist world it orbits, hoping to share his revolutionary theory and bridge two estranged societies. Le Guin contrasts the two planets to probe questions of freedom, scarcity, ideology, and the compromises of any social system. Subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia, the book stands among the most thoughtful works of political science fiction ever written.
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Historical Context & Significance
The Dispossessed won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards and forms part of Le Guin's Hainish cycle.