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Old 11-24-2014, 11:18 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by Nabeel View Post
The 'Dispossessed' is a wonderful book: part commentary on the utopian tradition, part science-fiction exploration, part philosophical treatise.

Her recent stuff has got a bit more repetitive, but she is now in her 80s. You can't be brilliant all the time!
I just looked that book up and it's #5 in the series Hainish. Do you need to read the first four before reading The 'Dispossessed'?
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