The Dispossessed (S.F. Masterworks) ~ Paperback ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed (S.F. Masterworks) ~ Paperback ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game. Accolades Winner Hugo Award 1975 Winner Nebula Award 1975 Winner Locus Award 1975 Author Biography SALES POINTS No.16 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written Winner of the Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power. She sets up enormous challenges and meets them fully; she invites, as Tolkien does, total belief' Observer 'To be read again and again' - The Times