When a work of fiction allies time theory, a bit of physic's sociological value, political commentaty, ethics, philosophy and projection beyond what our society is able to imagine, you know you just read a masterpiece. I feel like I've grown more into myself after reading The Dispossessed. I already considered myself an anarchist before so it wasn't a too murky territory, and I was very curious of how this political current might work in science-fiction, but I did not expect to have it literally blow my mind and further my expectations by a thousand. When I think about it, sci-fi is one of, if not the best, medium to access something we lack horrifically as anti-capitalists as a whole, no matter the movement, and that's projection. Because the main line of argument of opposition would be "okay, what comes next?" It's okay to say "I don't know", because it would be true. But Le Guin went further - literally, like outside our solar system - than any theories you might read and really dived deep, drilled through and exposed particles and peculiarities of a world we would never dare to imagine in the world we are in. And that's beautiful in ways that are hard to express. There is so much to say about all the topics brought up in barely 300 pages, all very important in their own right : how time, as abstract a concept as it might seem, shapes our world and how we live in it more than we can ever realize (and that's why time theories thought by people that are not white, western colonisers are very important to discuss); how community and individuality works; how one must get comfortable with change to be free, truly free... I don't want to put it all here, mainly because I know everyone can see a bit of themselves inside this book, and discovery is also important, to not always take another's word as true. But goodness that's barely scratching the surface, so imagine the rest ! I'm falling in love with this author's writing more and more as I go, I'm looking forward to reading a lot more and to keep getting surprised, and also challenged, incited to ask questions, to think deeply. Easily breaking into my top books this year.

"If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will never be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to comes home."