Within the timeline of Le Guin’ celebrated series the Hainish Cycle, The Dispossessed is chronologically the first volume. Wise, complex and thrilling, The Dispossessed is the sort of science fiction only Le Guin could have written her abiding interest in anthropology and human nature summons worlds that inspire total belief from her readers, and she gives no easy answers to the many questions that the book poses. Yet this seems quite at odds with the attitude on his home planet that is described later in the book.‘One of the greats … Not just a science-fiction writer a literary icon’ With Shevek’s joke about “a waste of good equipment,” it certainly sounds like he means that homosexual sex is a waste of the reproductive organs. I meant in the matter of their social status.” The doctor hesitated, evidently picking his way around one of the obstacles in his mind, then looked flustered, and said, “Oh, no, I didn’t mean sexually-obviously you-they.
“That would be a waste of good equipment,” said Shevek with a laugh, and then a second laugh as the full ridiculousness of the idea grew upon him.
Shevek, that women in your society are treated exactly like men?” However, earlier in the book, before the same-sex relationships on Anarres are ever mentioned, there is an odd passage in which Shevek is talking about the culture of his homeworld with one of his hosts on the sister planet, Urras. At one point, the protagonist Shevek, although he is primarily heterosexual, is happy to be involved in a brief homosexual relationship with one of his friends.
In Ursula Le Guin’s Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning 1974 novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, there are a number of discussions of how same-sex relationships are commonplace on Anarres, and most people have sexual relationships with members of both sexes.
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