The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed
ISBN: 9781857988826
Publication Date: 1 November 1999

The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionise interstellar civilisation by making possible instantaneous communication.

It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.