But, knowing only that I didn’t want to study war no more, I studied peace. If I had known then that my country would continue making aggressive wars for the rest of my life, I might have had less energy for protesting that one. I needed to understand my own passionate opposition to the war that we were, endlessly it seemed, waging in Vietnam, and endlessly protesting at home. There was a book in it, and I knew it, but the book had to wait for me to learn what I was writing about and how to write about it. The Dispossessed started as a very bad short story, which I didn’t try to finish but couldn’t quite let go. In her introduction to the Library of America reprint in 2017, reflecting back some 40 years from late in her life, the author wrote: The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published.
It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ansible, a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, and individualism and collectivism. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel.
Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. The Dispossessed (in later printings titled The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K.
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