The Dispossessed itu apa sih?

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia adalah sebuah novel fiksi ilmiah utopian tahun 1974 karya penulis Amerika Ursula K. Le Guin, berlatar alam fiksi yang sama dengan The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle). Buku tersebut memenangkan Penghargaan Nebula untuk Novel Terbaik pada 1974, memenangkan Penghargaan Hugo dan Penghargaan Locus pada 1975, dan meraih sebuah nominasi untuk John W. Campbell Memorial Award pada 1975. Novel tersebut meraih tingkat pengakuan sastra tak biasa untuk karya-karya fiksi ilmiah karena eksplorasinya dari beberapa tema, termasuk anarkisme dan masyarakat revolusioner, kapitalisme dan individualisme dan kolektivisme.

John P. Brennan, "Anarchism and Utopian Tradition in The Dispossessed", pp. 116–152, in Olander & Greenberg, editors, Ursula K. Le Guin, New York: Taplinger (1979).

Samuel R. Delany, "To Read The Dispossessed," in The Jewel-Hinged Jaw. N.Y.: Dragon Press, 1977, pp. 239–308 (anarchism in The Dispossessed). (pdf available online through Project Muse)

Neil Easterbrook, "State, Heterotopia: The Political Imagination in Heinlein, Le Guin, and Delany", pp. 43–75, in Hassler & Wilcox, editors, Political Science Fiction, Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina Press (1997).

Leonard M. Fleck, "Science Fiction as a Tool of Speculative Philosophy: A Philosophic Analysis of Selected Anarchistic and Utopian Themes in Le Guin's The Dispossessed", pp. 133–45, in Remington, editor, Selected Proceedings of the 1978 Science Fiction Research Association National Conference, Cedar Falls: Univ. of Northern Iowa (1979).

John Moore, "An Archaeology of the Future: Ursula Le Guin and Anarcho-Primitivism", Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, v.63, pp. 32–39 (Spring 1995).

Larry L. Tifft, "Possessed Sociology and Le Guin's Dispossessed: From Exile to Anarchism", pp. 180–197, in De Bolt & Malzberg, editors, Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat (1979).

Kingsley Widmer, "The Dialectics of Utopianism: Le Guin's The Dispossessed", Liberal and Fine Arts Review, v.3, nos.1–2, pp. 1–11 (Jan.–July 1983).