Science Fiction · ThoughtfulShevek, a physicist from Anarres, travels to its twin world Urras in the Tau Ceti system
The Dispossessed
A physicist crosses from one world to its twin, which lives by different rules
Harper & Row published the novel in 1974. It has the subtitle An Ambiguous Utopia, which came from a tagline on the original edition, "The magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia!". It is set on Anarres and Urras, the twin inhabited worlds of Tau Ceti. It follows Shevek, an Anarresti physicist, who travels from Anarres to Urras; Takver and Sabul are also among the characters. The first edition has 341 pages.
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Who
Shevek, Takver and Sabul.
World
Anarres and Urras, the twin worlds of Tau Ceti.
What makes it different
It won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Locus Award. The subtitle came from the original tagline, and CBC Radio adapted it as six 30-minute episodes in 1987.
Feel
Reflective and measured.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The DispossessedWikipedia