The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin • 1974
Devastation Rating
philosophical political dystopian literary fiction
Our Take
A physicist from an anarchist moon visits the capitalist planet it orbits, and Le Guin uses the journey to dismantle both systems with equal rigour. Shevek's idealism is tested and not wholly broken, but the novel is honest about what utopias cost and who pays.
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