The Dispossessed
1974 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel.[1] It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism, and collectivism.
Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Cover artist | Fred Winkowski |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | The Hainish Cycle |
Genre | Science fiction |
Published | 1974 (Harper & Row) |
Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
Pages | 341 (first edition) |
Awards | Locus Award for Best Novel (1975) |
ISBN | 0-06-012563-2 (first edition, hardcover) |
OCLC | 800587 |
Preceded by | The Word for World is Forest |
Followed by | Four Ways to Forgiveness |
It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ansible, a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published.[2]