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Derek Caelin is writing a book (derek@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 15:11:12 JST Derek Caelin is writing a book
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@kern lovely book. Our book club just finished it.

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  Kern Jackson :xcode: (kern@iosdev.space)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 15:11:14 JST Kern Jackson :xcode:
  
  I've been thinking about Ursula K. Le Guin''s The Dispossessed a lot this week, and feeling very much like it's protagonist Shevek when he leaves his home world.
  I guess that means it's time to pick it back up and finally finish it.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed
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    The Dispossessed
    
    The Dispossessed (subtitled An Ambiguous Utopia) is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. It achieved a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction due to its exploration of themes such as anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, utopia, individualism, and collectivism. It features the development of the mathematical theory underlying a fictional ansible, a device capable of faster-than-light communication (it can send messages without delay, even between star systems) that plays a critical role in the Hainish Cycle. The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth published. Background In her introduction to the Library of America reprint in 2017, Le Guin reflected on her past 40 years by writing: The Dispossessed started as a very bad short story, which I didn...

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