The Dispossessed

the best book everrrrr...........just dazzling and luminous. I loved that the structure of the story reflected the Odonian principles in the book as well as Shevek's theory of simultaneity (i.e., circular, constantly coexisting/crossing over etc.) (and how his society fundamentally forms his major scientific work, the portrayal of him growing up and his experience of life from childhood to adulthood on Anarres was amazing, complemented the part with him on Urras so well). This is just one example of how well thought out every part of this book is, it wasn't as simple as ‘the Urrasti are humans/modern society' (although that parallel does exist) because the human species exists in the novel separately from the Urrasti and Anarresti and both are distinctly ‘alien'. Also how the Pravic language reflects and influences the anarchist society of Anarres that's so cool...love it!