His handlers-a group of five men-point out the sights to Shevek as the countryside flies by. A limousine arrives to take Shevek to the capital city of Nio Esseia, where he will be staying at the Ieu Eun University.
He is met by reporters and paparazzi who photograph him and shout at him-he is “The First Man From the Moon” to them. Kimoe, Shevek prepares himself for landing on the capitalist, deeply socially-stratified world of Urras. In the days that follow, Shevek runs a high fever as a side effect of the various vaccines, and when he awakes, he finds that he is halfway to Urras-the Moon, twin, and rival planet of his home planet, Anarres. Onboard the ship-a freighter called the Mindful-the passenger, a man named Shevek, is taken to his cabin and injected with several vaccines by a Urrasti doctor named Kimoe. The passenger makes it on board and the ship doors close, and within a few minutes the angry mob disperses. Members of the Anarresti Defense syndicate flank the man and hurry him to the ship as protestors begin throwing rocks, clipping the man’s shoulder and killing a Defense syndic. As a man crosses the wall and walks through the barren field toward the ship, the protestors recognize him and begin to chase him. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.A group of protestors gathers at the wall that surrounds the Port of Anarres as a spaceship docked there prepares for liftoff. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, nine Hugos, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. "Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated and beloved author of 21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, 12 children’s books, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life-Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change."
He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. GoodReads: "Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. We will be discussing The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Join the Science Fiction Book Club, hosted by Emma and Javier on Thursday, Feb.20th, at 7 p.m., downstairs at our Prince Street store.
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