Le Guin, Ursula. The dispossessed : an ambiguous Utopia, New York : Harper and Row, 1974.Le Guin's sci-fi political allegory follows idealistic anarchist physicist, Shevek, who utilises scientific innovation to reconcile his colonial satellite planet, Annares, with its mother-planet, Urras. The book covers much territory familiar to the utopian/dystopian genre, including the influence of science on humanity, relations between the powerful and the oppressed, and the theme of human liberation from social and political tyranny.
