Today I finished reading Ursula Le Guin‘s famous book “The Dispossessed” (Turkish: “Mülksüzler”). This book was in my todo (toread) list for quite a while. I’m glad that I could finally read it and I’m sorry that I haven’t done it before. It’s more a political/social book rather than (Hard) Science Fiction as it’s always been in Le Guin’s books.What stroke me first is the interlaced timeline of the story. The book starts with the most important event which is the right middle of the story and events before and after that are followed in interlaced manner. This makes the story more interesting.
Different people may get very different messages (or so to say; may enjoy very different aspects). Besides the SciFi part, you can find analysis of politics, regimes and their impact on people. Also the author shows the barriers between individuals and between ideas, shows how difficult to see the world as other people see thanks to differences in principle ideas that are injected into our brains by the society and environment.
Anyhow this is one of the very best SciFci novels I’ve read, It forces the reader’s empathy and vision skills.
