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Author: GUIN, URSULA K LE

Science fiction

Published on 12 August 1999 by Orion Publishing Co (Gollancz) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the S.F. Masterworks’ series.

Paperback | 336 pages
197 x 129 x 22 | 238g

One of the very best must-read novels of all time – with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle’A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again’ THE TIMES’The book I wish I had written … It’s so far away from my own imagination, I’d love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin’ Roddy Doyle’Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power’ OBSERVERThe 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.