>The dispossessed- put the book on hold after page 20-seemed to be the all too familiar characters put in a strange land and must adapt story that I read already in Left hand, rocannon, exiles, and illusions...<
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It seems to me here that you have overlooked one of the key themes of this book that set it apart from her other works (and indeed that of most other authors). It is above all else a meditation on a social system of anarchy and how it might work out in practice. This anarchic society is also compared in stark contrast to the capitalist society (resembling a futuristic vision of our own society) of it's sister planet through the eyes of a disallusioned anarchist. The scientific theme of the book is almost incidental and little more than a plot device really.
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Indeed, the book is quite simply in the elite of SF classics, it has to be - beutifully written and psycholocally real in it's depiction of someone who is a forever outsider who sees all the flaws