Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #572394 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

A science fiction touchstone
This is probably the best of leGuin's books but certainly the grandest in conception. Thirty years since I first read it, fifteen years since I last read it, the scenes and characters and ideas still float up into consciousness from time to time. It became a part of me, in the way that good books do.
This is the clearest of her books on her version of anarchism as a political system and it has the grandest ideas.
But don't let me give the impression that it is a 'worthy' book and you OUGHT to read it. I read the book for its story, and was not diappointed. All the rest is a bonus.
One of those books that gives the rest of the field something to measure up to.

Distopic worlds
Maybe the best book of Ursula K. Le guin. You have to read it.