I recommend this epic book, by this amazing author to anyone that likes sci-fi, new ideas, and great writing. Le guin is such a great story-teller. I read this first before hand of darkness.

Storyline and creative power of the outhor are amazing as usual, but the greatest strength of the novel is the conceptual structure of how things loop around. All in all the cycles they complete contributes to the story and create a wonderful rhythm. ...  Read More

This is an exploration of a possible 'anarchistic' society -- its virtues -- and its failings. It’s a society founded on anarchic communal ideals, in a backdrop much like the israeli kibbutzim from the very late 1800s to 1960s. The main alien is from ...  Read More

The child of anthropologists, this is a very cerebral sci-fish read that dwells more into our potential social frontiers rather than technological. The scientist travels to the planet to spend time working on his theories.

It's thought-provoking and can be mind-opening. Poetic and deeply insightful. A classic. That resounds with me.

Where left hand of darkness is lean and exciting, the dispossessed is full of boring backstory.

There was no evidence of any advanced futuristic technology on either planet. Her feeble attempts at physics and hard sciences is frankly. None of the stringency and reasoning power of, say, asimov.

The text is turgid, even occasionally ungrammatical. It's perfectly readable and comprehensible, but it's annoying and i would expect better from a major publisher. If you want to read something that rambles on without direction or even continuity fro...  Read More