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Le Guin</a> <span class="by">(<a href="/profile/andomck">andomck</a>)</span><blockquote class="" ><a href="/profile/andomck">andomck</a>: Both are books in the Hainish Cycle.</blockquote class="" ></li><li><div class="thumbvoter" id="vote_6_96233"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i>2<i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i><span class="gray">0</span></span></div><a href="/work/187298" data-workid="187298" data-title="Doctor-Mirabilis" class="" >Doctor Mirabilis</a> by <a href="/author/blishjames">James Blish</a> <span class="by">(<a href="/profile/jpers36">jpers36</a>)</span><blockquote class="" ><a href="/profile/jpers36">jpers36</a>: Life story of a genius physicist destined to revolutionize a stagnant culture with his radical scientific insights.</blockquote class="" ></li><li><div class="thumbvoter" id="vote_6_113629"><span class="main"><i class="far fa-thumbs-up votethumb"></i>2<i class="far fa-thumbs-down votethumb"></i><span class="gray">0</span></span></div><a href="/work/52358" data-workid="52358" data-title="Island" class="" >Island</a> by <a href="/author/huxleyaldous">Aldous Huxley</a> <span class="by">(<a href="/profile/themulhern">themulhern</a>)</span><blockquote class="" ><a href="/profile/themulhern">themulhern</a>: Two utopian books. 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She knows a lot about a lot of stuff, like sociology, politics, and quantum theory.... She's clearly influenced by a lot of stuff (this publ. 1974) like the Vietnam War, hippies & communes etc., Ayn Rand.... It's not difficult to read her writing. <br><br>But damn, even though I'm a fan of the What If feature and of idea-focused stories, this is just all that and no story. I mean, yeah, all the earnestness is hung on a scaffolding, and there is a character that some readers will empathize with sufficiently to feel as if he's 'authentic' or 'complex' ... but I'm just not feeling it. I feel neither enlightened or entertained.<br><br>Would I have appreciated this more when it was new, back when there wasn't much intelligent speculative fiction? Would I have been thrilled to find something that wasn't hack genre? No, because it's a myth that we never had thoughtful socio-political sf stories in 'the old days.' This may be better than much, but it's def. not groundbreaking or anything.<br><br>Oh, and btw, it does not read as a feminist text at all. It doesn't read as if it was written by a woman; it has few female characters, it def. doesn't meet the Bechdel test.... too bad.<br><br>Ok done. Lots more ideas on this thread, in which I'm talking to myself about a group read:<br><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/21250031-the-dispossessed---march-2020" rel="nofollow" target="_top">https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/21250031-the-dispossessed---march-2020</a> <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273623682" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273623682"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273623682" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273623682" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273623682"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/Cheryl_in_CC_NV" target="_top">Cheryl_in_CC_NV</a> | Oct 18, 2024 | <a href="/review/273623682"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_272070716" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21142" data-workid="21142" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>There is a funny passage in this book where Shevek attempts to read a book on economics and just becomes horribly bored. It must not have been Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics", if it had been, he would have realized that Annares was a vast experiment in economics.<br><br>Ursula LeGuin was a good writer. The dirigibles and the trains make me think of Ian McDonald's books set on Mars. I guess they send books on the spaceship because the two planets are not allowed to communicate by radio, so that's not preposterous. But I kind of wonder how, in the super dry climate of Annares, anybody is able to have a picnic. Perplexing. And the book has some pretty bad metaphors. On the other hand, LeGuin is good at travail and understated action sequences. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_272070716" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_272070716"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_272070716" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_272070716" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_272070716"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/themulhern" target="_top">themulhern</a> | Oct 16, 2024 | <a href="/review/272070716"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_270791060" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/21142" data-workid="21142" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0061054887.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>In the past year I really rediscovered the genre of science fiction. After Stanislav Lem (Solaris) and Olav Stapledon (the Last and the First last Men), now Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018). I hadn't read anything by her before, and this is an instant hit. Let me be clear: this is not that great in terms of story, there are some snags (especially the ending is disappointing); most characters - with the exception of protagonist Shevek - are only superficially portrayed, and their interaction has only limited depth. And still I gave this 3.5 stars (rounded up) in my strict rating system? Yes, because Le Guin really impressed me with the imaginative strength of the worlds she created, and with the relevant social message she has put into the story. The two planets on which this takes place, Urras and Annares, are cleverly portrayed, very different in geographical circumstances, but at the same time – throughout history – very much connected. But it is above all the social focus that is gradually introduced and deepened by Le Guin. And here it is all about the theme of freedom and power: in which socio-political system can people best develop themselves? Or better: which system puts the least obstacles in the way of individuals developing themselves? The official anarchism of Annares (actually a form of anarcho-syndicalism that comes very close to pure communism) proves to be just as oppressive as the aggressive capitalism of the part of Urras where Shevek is residing. The novel completely breathes the social debates that raged in the Western world at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, and Ursula Le Guin has not condensed this in simple black-and-white contrasts. The message that remains is that every political and social order has its negative sides for the individual, that power structures are always oppressive and that elites primarily defend their own interests. This sounds simple, but Le Guin does it well. <br>Another strong point of this novel is the way in which the author introduces the problem of temporality. The main character Shevek is a brilliant mathematician, who is mainly focused on time and simultaneity. Shevek is working on a General Theory of Temporality that should make it possible to move through the universe in the blink of an eye. He does not succeed in this, and the (provisional) final conclusion of his research is perhaps somewhat disappointing, but throughout the novel Le Guin does introduce quite a few basic elements of the temporality problem as it still poses itself in contemporary physics. It is quite impressive how she has worked her way into this. I suspect that I will pick up more of Le Guin's work in the future. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss7.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_270791060" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_270791060"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_270791060" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_270791060" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_270791060"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/bookomaniac" target="_top">bookomaniac</a> | Sep 19, 2024 | <a href="/review/270791060"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','21142','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','21142','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 264 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','21142','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','21142','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_56d39e30', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_56d39e30" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_98a1a1e2_link"><tr><td id="left">1 review</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'21142'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_default">unrated</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="66345" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_605f8cd1" title="0.0 Stars" aria-title="0.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ></span></span><div id="brtext_66345" class="commentText">Doch wollte Le Guin mit den Habenichtsen und ihrem Planeten weder ideale Menschen schildern, noch eine ideale Gesellschaft. Zu deutlich zeichnet sie die Schwächen und Mängel beider. Nicht nur die Urrasti, auch viele der Menschen auf Anarres sind hab- und machtgierig, intrigant und Karrieristen, obwohl es dort offiziell weder eine Hierarchie noch Eigentum gibt. Doch dafür werden die Anarresti gelegentlich "gezwungen, auf eigenen Wunsch für einige Zeit wegzugehen", weil die Gesellschaft sie andernorts braucht - oder auch, weil sie einem Mächtigeren im Weg sind. "Ein Paar, das eine Partnerschaft einging, tat dies in voller Kenntnis der Tatsache, dass es jederzeit durch die Erfordernisse der Arbeitsteilung getrennt werden konnte." Es gibt Zwangsarbeit, und Dissidenten werden schon mal zur "Therapie" auf einsame Inseln verbracht, und schon im ersten Teil des Romans stellt Shevek resignierend fest, "dass man für niemanden etwas tun kann. Wir können uns nicht gegenseitig retten. Nicht mal uns selber."</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/Indy133">Indy133</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'66345', 'workid':'21142'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="https://literaturkritik.de/id/1253" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">literaturkritik.de</span>, <span class="nowrap">Rolf Löchel</span></a> <span rawdate="962424000" class="nowrap">(Jul 1, 2000)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a name="otherauthors"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'otherauthors', 'u_b4c7c0b5', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Other authors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_b4c7c0b5" style="display:block;"><div id="otherauthors_container"><p style="margin-top: 5px !important;"><a href="javascript:otherauthors_edit(21142)">» Add other authors (100 possible)</a></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" class="otherauthor"><tr class="head"><td>Author name</td><td>Role</td><td>Type of author</td><td>Work?</td><td>Status</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/leguinursulak">Le Guin, Ursula K.</a></td><td>—</td><td>primary author</td><td>all editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/alexandriasusanalde">Alexandria, Susana L. de</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/bontruphiltrud">Bontrup, Hiltrud</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/burnsjim-2">Burns, Jim</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/craftkinuko">Craft, Kinuko</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/ducakdanilo">Ducak, Danilo</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/ebelalex">Ebel, Alex</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/ewyckannemarievan">Ewyck, Annemarie van</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/hornematilde">Horne, Matilde</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/koumlrberjoachim">Körber, Joachim</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/kindtannemarie">Kindt, Annemarie</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/lajosadamik">Lajos, Adamik</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/lesliedon">Leslie, Don</a></td><td>Narrator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/moorechris">Moore, Chris</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/nllekaren">Nölle, Karen</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/nyytjkalevi">Nyytäjä, Kalevi</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/pagetticarlo">Pagetti, Carlo</a></td><td>Foreword</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/planchathenryluc">Planchat, Henry-Luc</a></td><td>Traduction</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/robertsanthony-4">Roberts, Anthony</a></td><td>Cover artist</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/srbulescuemil">Sârbulescu, Emil</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/spoustarobert">Spousta, Robert</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/stegegisela">Stege, Gisela</a></td><td>Translator</td><td>secondary author</td><td>some editions</td><td>confirmed</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/author/tholecam">Thole, C. 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Le Guin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="26339245" href="/work/26339245">The Dispossessed / The Left Hand of Darkness</a> by <a data-authorid="guinursulakle" href="/author/guinursulakle">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="19466501" href="/work/19466501">Szesc swiatow Hain</a> by <a data-authorid="guinursulakle" href="/author/guinursulakle">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="13953489" href="/work/13953489">Ursula Leguin Collection: Left Hand of Darkness, the Earthsea Quartet & the Dispossessed</a> by <a data-authorid="leguinursula" href="/author/leguinursula">Ursula Leguin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="19491396" href="/work/19491396">Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories</a> by <a data-authorid="guinursulakle" href="/author/guinursulakle">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="18951926" href="/work/18951926">Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories [Library of America Boxed Set]</a> by <a data-authorid="guinursulakle" href="/author/guinursulakle">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span> <span class="tinygray">(indirect)</span></div></div><h2>Contains</h2><div id="u_090c58f7" class="showmore"><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="22142016" href="/work/22142016">The Dispossessed [Volume I]</a> by <a data-authorid="leguinursulak" href="/author/leguinursulak">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span></div><div class="actionWorklistAItem"><span class="worklistAwork"><a data-workid="6125504" href="/work/6125504">The Dispossessed [Volume II]</a> by <a data-authorid="leguinursulak" href="/author/leguinursulak">Ursula K. Le Guin</a></span></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_59" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'newaward', 'u_b2522692', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Awards and Honors</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_b2522692" style="display:block;"><div id="newawardforwork_container"><h2>Awards</h2><div id="u_df48b6cf" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1015/Gaylactic-Spectrum-Award" class="" >Gaylactic Spectrum Award</a> (<a href="/award/1015.2/Gaylactic-Spectrum-Award-Nominee">Nominee</a> – <a href="/award/1015.0.1621/Gaylactic-Spectrum-Award-Hall-of-Fame">Hall of Fame</a> – <a href="/award/1015.0.0.1999/Gaylactic-Spectrum-Award-1999">1999</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/539/Gigamesh-Award" class="" >Gigamesh Award</a> (<a href="/award/539.0.4768/Gigamesh-Award-Ciencia-ficci%C3%B3n-Novela">Ciencia ficción, Novela</a> – <a href="/award/539.0.0.1984/Gigamesh-Award-1984">1984</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/127/Hugo-Award" class="" >Hugo Award</a> (<a href="/award/127.1/Hugo-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/127.0.2156/Hugo-Award-Novel">Novel</a> – <a href="/award/127.0.0.1975/Hugo-Award-1975">1975</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/943/John-W-Campbell-Memorial-Award-for-Best-Science-Fiction-Novel" class="" >John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel</a> (<a href="/award/943.5/John-W-Campbell-Memorial-Award-for-Best-Science-Fiction-Novel-Finalist">Finalist</a> – <a href="/award/943.0.0.1975/John-W-Campbell-Memorial-Award-for-Best-Science-Fiction-Novel-1975">1975</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/1022/Jupiter-Award" class="" >Jupiter Award</a> (<a href="/award/1022.0.5374/Jupiter-Award-novel">novel</a> – <a href="/award/1022.0.0.1975/Jupiter-Award-1975">1975</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/154/Locus-Award" class="" >Locus Award</a> (<a href="/award/154.1/Locus-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/154.0.2156/Locus-Award-Novel">Novel</a> – <a href="/award/154.0.0.1975/Locus-Award-1975">1975</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/247/Nebula-Award" class="" >Nebula Award</a> (<a href="/award/247.1/Nebula-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/247.0.2156/Nebula-Award-Novel">Novel</a> – <a href="/award/247.0.0.1974/Nebula-Award-1974">1974</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/296/Prometheus-Hall-of-Fame-Award" class="" >Prometheus Hall of Fame Award</a> (<a href="/award/296.1/Prometheus-Hall-of-Fame-Award-Winner">Winner</a> – <a href="/award/296.0.0.1993/Prometheus-Hall-of-Fame-Award-1993">1993</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Distinctions</h2><div id="u_616295ae" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/167/Locus-All-Time-Best" class="" >Locus All-Time Best</a> (<a href="/award/167.0.19640/Locus-All-Time-Best-All-Time-Best-Novel">All-Time Best Novel</a> – <a href="/award/167.0.0.1975/Locus-All-Time-Best-1975">1975</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/167/Locus-All-Time-Best" class="" >Locus All-Time Best</a> (<a href="/award/167.0.2426/Locus-All-Time-Best-Science-Fiction-Novel">Science Fiction Novel</a> – <a href="/award/167.0.0.1998/Locus-All-Time-Best-1998">1998</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/167/Locus-All-Time-Best" class="" >Locus All-Time Best</a> (<a href="/award/167.0.2426/Locus-All-Time-Best-Science-Fiction-Novel">Science Fiction Novel</a> – <a href="/award/167.0.0.1987/Locus-All-Time-Best-1987">1987</a>)</div></div></div><h2>Notable Lists</h2><div id="u_4648e189" class="lt_itemlist"><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15/1001-boeken-die-je-gelezen-moet-hebben%21" class="" >1001 boeken die je gelezen moet hebben!</a> (<a href="/award/15.0.0.365574/1001-boeken-die-je-gelezen-moet-hebben%21-editie-2017">editie 2017</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/2/1001-Books-You-Must-Read-Before-You-Die" class="" >1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die</a> (<a href="/award/2.0.0.366080/1001-Books-You-Must-Read-Before-You-Die-2008%25252F2010%25252F2012-Edition">2008/2010/2012 Edition</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/5/Best-Fiction-for-Young-Adults" class="" >Best Fiction for Young Adults</a> (<a href="/award/5.106/Best-Fiction-for-Young-Adults-Selection">Selection</a> – <a href="/award/5.0.0.1974/Best-Fiction-for-Young-Adults-1974">1974</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/119/Bloomsbury-100-Must-Read-Science-Fiction-Novels" class="" >Bloomsbury 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/79/Classics-of-Science-Fiction" class="" >Classics of Science Fiction</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/171/David-Pringles-Best-100-Science-Fiction-Novels" class="" >David Pringle's Best 100 Science Fiction Novels</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15389/The-Great-American-Novels" class="" >The Great American Novels</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/14050/ISFDB-Top-100-Novels-Balanced-List" class="" >ISFDB Top 100 Novels - Balanced List</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/221/ISFDB-Top-100-Novels-Critical-List" class="" >ISFDB Top 100 Novels - Critical List</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/193/ISFDB-Top-100-Novels-Popular-List" class="" >ISFDB Top 100 Novels - Popular List</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/107/NPRs-Top-100-Science-Fiction-Fantasy-Books" class="" >NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/438/Read-This-Next-500-of-the-Best-Books-Youll-Ever-Read" class="" >Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read</a> (<a href="/award/438.0.2664/Read-This-Next-500-of-the-Best-Books-Youll-Ever-Read-Politics">Politics</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/15692/Science-Fiction-Books-Scientific-American%E2%80%99s-Staff-Love" class="" >Science-Fiction Books Scientific American’s Staff Love</a> (<a href="/award/15692.0.24071/Science-Fiction-Books-Scientific-American%E2%80%99s-Staff-Love-Dastardly-dystopias">Dastardly dystopias</a>)</div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/52/thisrecording-com-100-Greatest-Science-Fiction-or-Fantasy-Novels-of-All-Time" class="" >thisrecording.com 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time</a></div></div><div class="ltil_item " ><div><a href="/award/166/T%C3%A4htivaeltaja-1900-luvun-tieteiskirjallisuuden-TOP-50" class="" >Tähtivaeltaja: 1900-luvun tieteiskirjallisuuden TOP-50</a> (<a href="/award/166.0.0.2000/T%C3%A4htivaeltaja-1900-luvun-tieteiskirjallisuuden-TOP-50-2000">2000</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_60" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer"><a value="view history" value="view history" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn-tiny btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/commonknowledge/changelog.php?item=21142&type=1" ><span class="btntxt">view history</span></a></div><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'ck', 'u_48d1ad08', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Common Knowledge</span><span class="sectionTitleST"></span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_48d1ad08" style="display:block;"><div id="fwikiContainerTablediv"><table class="fwikiContainerTable ch1 " fn="inlineWikiItemsContent"> <tr> <td COLSPAN="2"> <div class="fwikiHint fwikiTopHint"><div class="fwikiWarningHint">You must <a href="/">log in</a> to edit Common Knowledge data.</div> For more help see the <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Common_Knowledge">Common Knowledge help page</a>. </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_canonicaltitle"></a>Canonical title</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_fc4ef592' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='21' name='u_fc4ef592' allowmultiple='0' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'canonicaltitle' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Authoritative title for a work in the language of the site you are on' ><div class='fwikiItem divcanonicaltitle'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originaltitle"></a>Original title</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_2ff63cc3' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='41' name='u_2ff63cc3' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originaltitle' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The original title in the original language' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginaltitle'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=The+Dispossessed%3A+An+Ambiguous+Utopia&f=41&exact=1&type=1">The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_alternativetitles"></a>Alternative titles</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_08bd14a1' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='42' name='u_08bd14a1' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'alternativetitles' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Avoid titles already listed as the Canonical or Original titles as well as foreign-language titles available on the "Details" tab.' ><div class='fwikiItem divalternativetitles'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_originalpublicationdate"></a>Original publication date</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_883bb913' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='16' name='u_883bb913' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'originalpublicationdate' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '1952-12-30, 1933-10, 1902, or 120 BCE' ><div class='fwikiItem divoriginalpublicationdate'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=1974-05&f=16&exact=1&type=1">1974-05</a> </div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_characternames"></a>People/Characters</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_afa8bca1' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='3' name='u_afa8bca1' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'characternames' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Enter each character's name in a separate box. Examples: Hermione Granger, Andrew Jackson, Oberon, St. Paul of Tarsus, or Zeus (Deity)' ><div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Shevek">Shevek</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divcharacternames'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/character/Takver">Takver</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_placesmentioned"></a>Important places</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_8e9fd0a4' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='2' name='u_8e9fd0a4' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'placesmentioned' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = '"Boston, Massachusetts, USA", "London, England", "The Plaza Hotel, New York, New York, USA", "Hogwarts", "Alpha Centauri", "Hell"' ><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Anarres">Anarres</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=moon">moon</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Urras">Urras</a> <span class="fwikiAutoLinks">(<a class="fwikiAutoLink" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?q=planet">planet</a>)</span></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/A-Io%2C+Urras">A-Io, Urras</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Thu">Thu</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Tau+Ceti">Tau Ceti</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class="itemnumberoverflow" id="link_u_bfd03119">(<a href="javascript:showHiddenfieldcontent('u_bfd03119')">show all 6 items</a>)</div><div id="u_bfd03119" style="display: none;"><div class='fwikiItem divplacesmentioned'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ><a href="/place/Benbili">Benbili</a></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </div></td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_events"></a>Important events</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_04eb5cb2' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='34' name='u_04eb5cb2' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'events' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Great Fire of London (1666), Battle of the Bulge (1944|1945), Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22), Battle of Hoth' ><div class='fwikiItem divevents'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_movies"></a>Related movies</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_bb4ef679' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='37' name='u_bb4ef679' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'movies' uitype = '1' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Blade Runner (1982), The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Three Musketeers (1993)' ><div class='fwikiItem divmovies'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" editVal="" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr>     <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_epigraph"></a>Epigraph</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_1387dd5f' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='28' name='u_1387dd5f' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '0' fieldName = 'epigraph' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The work's epigraph, "a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component." ' ><div class='fwikiItem divepigraph'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" ></div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_dedication"></a>Dedication</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_816befd8' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='30' name='u_816befd8' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'dedication' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Author's dedication' ><div class='fwikiItem divdedication'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >For the partner</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_firstwords"></a>First words</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField' id='u_d6e650a5' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='25' name='u_d6e650a5' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'firstwords' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'The first sentence of the work.' ><div class='fwikiItem divfirstwords'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >There was a wall.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> </td><td class='fwikiItemControls'></td></td></tr></table></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="fwikiLabel"><a name="ck_quotations"></a>Quotations</td> <td><table class="fwikiGroup"><tr><td class='fwikiField fwikiGroup' id='u_47be0a7c' itemType='1' itemNum='21142' fieldType='27' name='u_47be0a7c' allowmultiple='1' hasHistory = '1' fieldName = 'quotations' uitype = '3' ltlang='eng' hint = 'Well-known, relevant or interesting quotations from the work; Quotation marks are unnecessary.' ><div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river's relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind; it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >Nobody's born an Oxonian any more than he's born civilized! But we've forgotten that. We don't educate for freedom. Education, the most important activity of the social organism, has become rigid, moralistic, authoritarian. Kids parrot Odo's words as if they were laws--the ultimate blasphemy! (p.168</div><img style="float:left;" src='https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif' height='12px' width='1px' alt=''></div></div> <div class='fwikiItem divquotations'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >We have no government, no laws, all right. But as far as I can see, ideas never were controlled by laws and governments, even on Urras. If they had been, how would Odo have worked out hers? How would Odonianism have become a world movement? The archest tried to stamp it out by force, and failed. You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. But refusing to think, refusing to change. And that precisely what our society is doing! Sabul uses you where he can, and where he can't, he prevents you from publishing, from teaching, even from working. Right? In other words, he has power over you. Where does he get it from? Not from vested authority, there isn't any. Not from intellectual excellence, he hasn't any. He gets it from the innate cowardice of the average human mind. Public Opinion! That's the power structure he's part of, and knows how to use. The unadmitted, inadmissible government that rules Ordonian society by stifling the individual mind. 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