The Dispossessed: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

“Among the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen Ruler

From your brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a vintage tale of two planets torn aside by discord and mistrust – and the person who dangers everything to reunite them.

A bleak moon resolved simply by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mom world, Urras-a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite both planets, which were divided by hundreds of years of distrust. He’ll seek answers, query the unquestionable, and attempt to rip down the walls of hatred which have kept them apart.

To go to Urras-to learn, to instruct, to share-will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. However the ambitious scientist’s present is soon seen as a threat, and in the serious turmoil that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of modify.