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Ursula K. Le Guin—The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
The most overtly political of this anarchist writer’s excellent works. An examination of the relations between a rich, exploitive capitalist world and a poor, nearly barren (though high-tech) communist one.
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Not quite. Anarres is an anarchist world (not very high-tech either). The state of anarchy
is the goal of communism, but only as a product of a revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat. There was no revolution on Anarres, the Odonians just moved there.
To be really nitpicking, Urras isn't really a capitalist world either, it's a mix of several systems. Thu is a Soviet-like communist state.
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Mervyn Peake—The Gormenghast Novels (1946–59)
An austere depiction of dead ritualism and necessary transformation. Don’t believe those who say that the third book is disappointing.
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On the other hand, he's damn right about that last point!
