SF Masterworks: The Dispossessed

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards—a masterpiece of speculative fiction.

Shevek is a brilliant physicist from the arid, anarchist world of Anarres. Believing his society has become a prison, he takes a desperate gamble and makes an unprecedented journey to the mother planet, Urras.

Urras is a world of dazzling wealth, deep class divides, and warring nations. Shevek seeks to share his revolutionary scientific theory, but he is soon caught in a deadly political game, forcing him to question the very foundations of both societies—the anarchist "utopia" he left and the capitalist world that welcomed him.

Subtitled "An Ambiguous Utopia," The Dispossessed is a profound and timeless exploration of freedom, society, and the walls we build between us.