I needed to understand my own passionate opposition to the war that we were, endlessly it seemed, waging in Vietnam, and endlessly protesting at home. There was a book in it, and I knew it, but the book had to wait for me to learn what I was writing about and how to write about it. The Dispossessed started as a very bad short story, which I didn’t try to finish but couldn’t quite let go. In her introduction to the Library of America reprint in 2017, reflecting back some 40 years from late in her life, the author wrote: The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published.

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. 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, and individualism and collectivism. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. The typographic composition is a minimalist revision to the usually traditional designs of this classic novel.The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. The cover design for this Spanish edition of The Dispossessed uses the idea of the two warring planets separated by a blurred space that underscores the artificiality of man-made ideological boundaries. Le Guin book achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism on the satellite planet Anarres, revolutionary societies, capitalism, and individualism and collectivism. Originally published in 1974, this Ursula K. But the ambitious scientist's gift is soon seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change. To visit Urras - to learn, to teach, to share - will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras - a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth.

Los desposeídos by Ursula K. Le Guin