TY - BOOK AU - Guin, Ursula K Le TI - The Dispossessed SN - 9781857988826 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1999/// CY - UK PB - Orion Publishing Co KW - Science Fiction N2 - The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game ER -