![]() Here’s Le Guin, responding to criticism of The Dispossessed: What thoughts are you thinking with? Disambiguation The book’s subtitle refers to it as “an ambiguous utopia”-but of course, all utopias are ambiguous. In the ideological battle that follows, Le Guin unequivocally favors the settlers, but not without also leaving them open to criticism. The novel begins as one of the colonists, a young physicist, is about to return to the planet-the first colonist to do so. Some seven generations ago, a group of anarchist settlers left Urras to build a colony on the moon, after which communication between the colonists and the planet all but ceased. ![]() ![]() Le Guin Publisher Harper Copyright 1974 Collections Fiction The canon Buy this book BookshopĪ planet named Urras is host to a habitable moon known as Anarres. ![]()
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