lichen@bookwyrm.social reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
best sci-fi book I have ever read
5 stars
very deep personal relationship with this book
SF Masterworks (2nd Series), 324 pages
English language
Published Sept. 29, 2015 by Gollancz.
The Principle of Simultaneity will revultionise interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous collegues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.
very deep personal relationship with this book