Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (Tears) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:41:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:41:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="5820"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1884 Lines: 26 In article , William Hyde wrote: >James Nicoll wrote: >> The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin >> >> A physicist determined to complete his research emigrates from a planet >> of idealists to a planet of economic surpluses. >> >> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-best-things-in-life-are-free >> >When reading this book for the first time, I had trouble banishing the >image of one of my professors. I eventually figured out that privations >in the second world war had given him some of Shevek's attitude. Though >he was congenial enough, I think he remained faintly surprised, or >possibly amused, at the way we ignored the vast wealth in which we lived. > There was a chem prof at UW whose name I am blanking on, who came up from Caribbean poverty and had absolutely no patience with people being fussy about necessities. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll