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 The 2011 ReadMOre book selection is The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. "True voyage is return." A worlds famous scientist and political dissident returns to the planet his people left 170 years before to pursue their vision of community based on individual freedom and mutual aid. Ostensibly Shevek has returned to make use of the research facilities he needs to achieve his unified theory of time, which is expected to provide the catalyst for a technological revolution. But he has also come to begin the painful but imperative process of reconnecting the past to the present, for the sake of the future of the peoples of both worlds, and all the worlds beyond. Beset on every side by those who attack his integrity and seek to use him for their own ends, cut off from his family and the small circle of friends he trusts, Shevek must make difficult and far-reaching choices with only his own conscience as a guide.Ursula K. Le Guin, one of our most acclaimed authors of speculative fiction, published her award-winning novel, The Dispossessed, during the tumultuous Seventies, but the multiple levels of narrative --- social, political, scientific, and personal --- are as illuminating today as they were then. With honesty, compassion and hope in the face of all odds, Le ... Read More...
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