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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780061054884 ISBN: 0061054887 Label: Eos Manufacturer: Eos Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: December 01, 1994 Publisher: Eos Release Date: October 20, 1994 Studio: Eos Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Outstanding Utopian Work of Freedom and LibertyScience fiction has often described libertarian societies and ideals. Think of such works as Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land," Russell's ". . .and Then There Were None," and Williamson's "The Equalizer," among others. One of the most explicit of science fiction works on a society characterized by freedom is Ursula LeGuin's "The Dispossessed." At one point in the history of the planet Urras, a feisty woman named Odo led a movement for freedom, for liberty, for anarchism. Finally, ... Read More Rating: - But which is the better world?Two inhabited worlds, each with a claim at being a perfect utopia: Urras is a wealthy planet, full of haves and have-nots, warring nations and vast resources and Anarres is its almost barren moon. Anarres is populated by anarchist rebels who fled Urras generations ago to try to create a perfect society where everything is shared. This is the story of a brilliant physicist, Shevek, born on Anarres. He grows up with the political ideals of his society, but it seems as if his own culture and ... Read More Rating:  - Overall, solid Overall, a good book. The book isn't action pack but it does bring up a lot of questions about morality, humanity, and the idealist vs realistic forms of government. Rating:  - Turgid, ideological and pedanticA novel beginning with anarchists on one planet, 'archists' on its twin. That is, the planets are astronomical twins; the anarchists' planet is only marginally habitable while that of their seeming bete noir is quite earth-like. Very earth-like, in fact, replete with capitalists and modified communists (the novel is a cold war artifact). The author attempts to explore what happens in societies, how people lose their freedom. The anarchists become somewhat bureaucratic and terribly provincial ... Read More Rating: - Anarchy In OuterspaceThere are so many reviews of this book I wondered whether to contribute to this "discussion".I think I have something to add.Le Guin deserves to be given credit for imagining an ideal society and acknowledging that like any other society it has it's flaws.I suspect that this society will only appeal to radical egalitarians.Anarres strikes me as being a dour,puritanical and overly utilitarian place.It's very conformist and beneath the surface there is a current of ugly authoritarianism that seems ready to ... Read More 
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