For The Dispossessed, Lupton has kept in close contact with Le Guin’s son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, and the result is a series of beautiful, sensitive illustrations which reflect the complexities of the book’s characters and the tensions between them. Le Guin on The Folio Society edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, ensuring that her vision of the fantasy classic was captured on the page. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhereĪrtist David Lupton first worked with Ursula K. In his introduction, Professor Brian Attebery discusses the multiple meanings that can be gleaned from The Dispossessed, and its continuing relevance, observing that, ‘whatever we think it is saying, it might well say something new tomorrow’. For this unique illustrated edition, artist David Lupton worked closely with the author’s son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, to recreate the twin worlds of Le Guin’s imagination, Urras and Anarres, and her revolutionary scientist, Shevek, while the endpapers feature maps of the two planets.
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. ‘One of the greats … Not just a science-fiction writer a literary icon’
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