The dispossessed

Buy The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

WORLDS: Urras is a 50 x 70cm poster, one of my favourites in the series - it is one of an ongoing series of illustrations inspired by science fiction planets (WORLDS). This particular one is inspired by Ursula Le Guin's novel 'The Dispossessed', depicting the planet of Urras.

The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin -- This was an unpleasant novel to read. I don't know if the author intended it to be that way. However, the idea of a society that so strongly rejects the idea of ownership that people cannot even say "my face" or "my parents" because "my" is a bad word just feels... wrong.

Discover 13 of the greatest books ever written from eternal classics like Madame Bovary and Wise Blood to Crime and Punishment.

Avon books, 1985.

The principal character, an idealistic theoretical physicist, was partly based on J Robert Oppenheimer, a friend of Le Guin’s parents.

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”