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Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974
Science fiction novel following a physicist named Shevek who leaves his anarchist world of Anarres to travel to the capitalist planet Urras, exploring themes of politics, society, and human connection across two worlds.
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What this book knows
True freedom demands being dispossessed of property, ego, and certainty — even on the planet built to embody it.
work-as-meaning
Lack of social and sexual intercourse appeared to him not as lacks, but as freedom. He was the free man: he could do what he wanted.
DU-RC-073His colorless face, silver in the window's light, quickened and intensified as he wrote — nineteen years old, already at the edge of the theory.
DU-RC-037obedience-and-authority
They told Shevek competition for scholarships proved democracy. He said, 'You put another lock on the door and call it democracy.'
DU-RC-083Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
DU-RC-233self-and-identity
The director told the boy his speech was not spontaneous, merely egoizing — and Shevek stared back, undefeated.
DU-RC-019'Freedom is never very safe,' Shevek told Ketho. 'You would find yourself very much alone.'
DU-RC-250Illuminates
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