In The Dispossessed, Urras is divided into several states which are dominated by the two largest ones, which are rivals. Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Day Before the Revolution. An Anarresti appears in the short story The Shobies' Story. Cetians are mentioned in other Ekumen novels and short stories. The story of The Dispossessed is set on Anarres and Urras, the twin inhabited worlds of Tau Ceti. (The invention of the ansible places the novel first in the internal chronology of the Hainish Cycle, although it was the fifth Hainish novel published ). It is also notable for its description of the invention of the new physics that is the basis for the fictional ansible, an instantaneous communications device that plays a critical role in Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. The story explores many ideas and themes, including anarchism and revolutionary societies, capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. It is also notable for achieving a degree of literary recognition unusual for science fiction works. The book won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1974, both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1975, and received a nomination for the John W. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle). The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by Ursula K.
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