The Dispossessed
- Dispossessed
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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- Dispossessed, The
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- Novel
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- English
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The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist 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. 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.
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.
Editions
Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
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The Dispossessed | Paperback | 0-06-051275-X | 2014 |
The Dispossessed (SF Masterworks) | Paperback | 978-1-85798-882-6 | 2002 |
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- The Dispossessed has translation Les Dépossédés
- The Dispossessed was written by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Dispossessed is part of The Hainish Cycle(in-universe chronological order, based on essay by Ian Watson) (number: 2300)
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- 2024-09-14