The Dispossessed

, #6

SF Masterworks (2nd Series), 324 pages

English language

Published Sept. 29, 2015 by Gollancz.

ISBN:
978-1-4732-0606-9
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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.

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