James Nicoll wrote:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinWhen reading this book for the first time, I had trouble banishing the
A physicist determined to complete his research emigrates from a planet
of idealists to a planet of economic surpluses.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-best-things-in-life-are-free
image of one of my professors. I eventually figured out that privations
in the second world war had given him some of Shevek's attitude. Though
he was congenial enough, I think he remained faintly surprised, or
possibly amused, at the way we ignored the vast wealth in which we lived.
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