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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula K. Le Guin · scifi

Recommended by @dominik

@dominik · read in 2016

As part of Hainish Cycle

Continuing in my classic SF adventures, I tore through several of Ursula Le Guin’s novels. She writes with a poignancy and precision that makes her prose sing, and treats with themes that are larger than what’s typically encountered in science fiction. Among the books in the cycle, The Dispossessed stood out for me as a moving tale of two civilizations riven by decades of animosity. The entire work itself is beautifully and carefully framed, making it a work of art in its composition and form.