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reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #6)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (Paperback, 1999, Gollancz) 4 stars

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …

Such a masterpiece

5 stars

Walls beyond walls.

Re-read 2024: So much to sit with and contemplate on each reading, come to it with empty hands.

Re-read 2020: Upped to 5 stars. Still a bit of a slow start and interspersed philosophical explainers, but I appreciate the complexities of this "evolving utopia" more than before, the human and social and intergenerational tensions she walks through in making the case complicated.