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	Anarres. Who is Anarres? What is Anarres? Where is Anarres? Definition of Anarres. Meaning of Anarres.
		(Since Anarres is massive enough to hold an atmosphere, this is often described as a double planet system.) In the aftermath of a failed anarchist revolution, the rebels were exiled to the moon about two hundred years prior to the events of the story.
		The protagonist Shevek is an anarchist physicist/philosopher attempting to develop a theory which will allow the construction of an ansible, a faster-than-light communications device, but his efforts are blocked by parochial and xenophobic attitudes in his home society.
		The language spoken in Anarres, Pravic, is a constructed language that reflects many aspects of the philosophical foundations of utopian anarchism.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Anarres (376 words)

	The Continuation of History
		Anarres is far from perfect, being an "ambiguous utopia." It is an anarchist society without government, yet it must ensure resources are used where they are needed, that men and women with the right skills are sent where they are needed and that the basic necessities of life are available for everyone.
		The people of Anarres, who deeply believe in their project, are allowed to continue to develop their society with no interference thanks to the hundreds of thousands of miles that separate it from the warring nation-states of Urras.
		Anarres must continue to supply Urras with minerals or face the possibility of an invasion; the revolutionary Martian government must continue to accept a continuous stream of colonists from Earth and maneuver its way around the colossal economic power of Earth's biggest corporations and the puppet political institutions the corporations control.
	www.pemmicanpress.com /articles/continuation-history-peter-dolack.html (3991 words)

	Pravic
		It's spoken in the planet Anarres, where followers of the philosopher Leia Asieo Odo chose to be exiled in order to achieve the goal of a functioning anarchic society.
		Anarres is actually the semi-desertic moon of Odo's homeworld Urras.
		As far as we know, the only language spoken widely in Anarres is Pravic, though the few people that have contact with Urras (mostly trade officials and scientists) also speak Iotic, the language of Urras's dominant nation A-Io.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/p/pr/pravic.html (715 words)

	Judah Bierman- Ambiguity in Utopia: The Dispossessed
		Anarres, the place beyond or without things (res), is the anarchist Moon colony founded some 200 years before the action begins by the followers of Odo.
		Anarres may be considered an ambiguous utopia, then, because it shows us so many traditionally good institutions in a setting that imposes an absence of goods-traditional means to fulfillment.
		On Anarres the anarchist "syndicate" is the institution of the permanent revolution, given the individual's power of moral choice.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/7/bierman7art.htm (3795 words)

	Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed: A Glossary
		In The Dispossessed, Shevek argues (to Bedap) that society on Anarres is corrupt and conformist because it is impoverished.
		In The Dispossessed, Anarres is a utopia in that it is free of the bad things that occur on Urras, mostly due to the fact that there is no bad government on Anarres, and because all of the anarchist promises of Odonianism have come true.
		Anarres is a flawed society; what's wrong with it, and what do you think the solutions are to the problems LeGuin poses against the idea that an anarchist society could function indefinitely.
	www.geocities.com /senorefe/glossary.html (3452 words)

	Victor Urbanowicz- Personal and Political in The Dispossessed
		The different walls are overcome one by one; the conquest of one seems to be related to that of another, and increasingly all walls appear to be one, and the least personal of Shevek's difficulties, his work in physics, is closely identified with the most, his attempts to form and feel a bond with others.
		While the alternation of Anarres with Urras chapters stresses the organic relationship of his actions on the two planets, the Urras phase contains the climax of the action as a whole and demonstrates the unity of all phases of the anarchist's life.
		On Anarres there is no barrier analogous to passports and State Department clearance to keep Shevek from boarding the freighter to Urras, though he must brave an angry crowd to do so, and though one of the Defense guards dies while protecting him.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/15/urbanowicz15art.htm (4357 words)

	The Dispossessed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On Anarres women and men do the same work; physical differences are not a distinction due to the reliance on machines.
		On Anarres though, the educated are able to comprehend the radical ideas of socialism and capitalism.
		Politics is very one sided on Anarres, with no one ever contacting another government the uneducated have no way of comparing their condition to another.
	lrc.csun.edu:8888 /9180 (1040 words)

	Le Guin's World - Hainish Encyclopedia
		It was renamed after Anarres was given to the Odonians.
		Anarres is one of the Cetian twin worlds - the other is Urras.
		Laia Aseio Odo (698-769) was the founder of the Odonians on Anarres.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/hain.html (4331 words)

	Blackcurrent/Anarres - Anarres
		Anarres will rent land to groups and individuals/couples who agree to the rules about how the land is used.
		Anarres has its own set of Principles, which can't be changed, and each group living on the land will have its own additional set of agreements which the each group forms and changes as it needs to.
		However, the Anarres Principles are not open to change as they define the ethos of the whole village.
	www.ofek.com /bca/anarres.php (204 words)

	Le Guin's World - Guides - to the Cetian worlds
		The term Cetian is really a Terran term to refer to the twin worlds of Urras and Anarres, the latter being the moon of the first.
		Anarres Town was founded at the foot of the Ne Thera mountains in the Urrasti year IX-738, as a mining operation.
		Anarres town then held a hundred thousand inhabitants and was renamed Abbeney.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/g_cetian.html (402 words)

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		She posits Anarres, an anarchy-utopia, as the one place in her universe where this synthesis is on track to occur.
		Darko Suvin points out that there is a growing disbelief, with Le Guin as one of the leaders, in the individualistic ideology.21 This is correct, in terms of strait individualism as it is connected with capitalism, though she does encourage individual initiative and ability as seen in Shevek.
		Anarres is the future, but has broken ties with its past completely.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /20th/etudes/swenson/leguin.html (5137 words)

	icdb.org - Anarres
		Anarres is the name we have chosen for our ecovillage.
		It is taken from a SF novel called 'The Dispossessed' by Ursula le Guin and the story is set in an anarchist society called Anarres.
		We expect the process of finding the land for Anarres and getting planning permission to take about two years.
	www.icdb.org /show.php?r=anarres (554 words)

	Review: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
		Anarres is a desert world, home to only a few species, and largely devoid of the water and biological diversity to support much life.
		Le Guin uses a matter-of-fact biography told from the perspective of a native as the description, letting the reader be constantly surprised by the differences that none of the characters notice.
		When Anarres faces a drought, despite fears that it could mean the end of their society through greed and fear, the utopia is actually strengthened.
	www.eyrie.org /~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-105488-7.html (1169 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Dispossessed
		Anarres, in spite of itself, has evolved a de facto bureaucracy based upon the assertion of custom and the pressure to conform (the "inadmissible government that rules the Odonian society by stifling the individual mind," as one character puts it), and Shevek's theories, diverging radically from conventional Anarresti physics, are not welcome.
		By portraying the limitations of her utopia, Le Guin avoids the one-dimensionality of early utopian fiction; also, by showing the tension between theory and practice, she is able to bring Anarresti ideals into sharper focus.
		This is an important aspect of the book, for the idea of Anarres, as well as the human ability to conceive that idea, is as vital as the imperfect reality of Anarresti society.
	www.sfsite.com /01b/dis73.htm (1312 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Dispossessed at Epinions.com
		Planet Anarres has a twin planet, each planet orbiting the other....it is from this other world, Urras, that Odo and her band of social experimenters arrived to Anarres to start afresh.
		Anarres has cut itself off from the rest of a community of planets, and he was unable to communicate and disseminate his theory whilst there.
		The planet Anarres, on the other hand, is a wonderful, strange planet; part utopia, part barren hell, LeGuin excruciatingly points up the contrast between a rich inner-life and a life rich in worldly goods by this contrast.
	www.epinions.com /content_33625706116 (810 words)

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		A lot of Anarres rang true to me: that it was highly idealistic, but calcifying as people sought security in the familiar and in groupthink.
		Anarres is actually managed by an informal structure that is extremely hard for Shevek to see.
		Anarres, OTOH, is a bit straightlaced, in terms of fashion say, although totally different in how the sexes live and work together.
	www.geocities.com /bdg_volunteers/archives/bdg_dispossessed.txt (14023 words)

	Web Site Design from Anarres Web Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Anarres will determine what you need and want from a website and design it to accomplish those things.
		Anarres can take what you already have done, determine which design and content improvements should be made, and produce a web site of which you can be proud.
		Alternately, Anarres can maintain your site on an ongoing basis, keeping links and content current and making the changes you request.
	www.anarres.com /design.htm (348 words)

	Amelia, James, Pooja, and Quinn SciFi Blog: They're all utopias....or are they?
		The story begins under his assumption that Anarres is a utopia where there is human solidarity, no one owns anything, people share everything, and everyone is free.
		Years of living in Anarres reveals its many problems, including the desolate nature of the earth that can barely maintain its population, the existence of certain selfish profiteers, and most of all, the hidden power and unwritten laws that have created walls around the Anarrastis, limiting their fundamental Odonian right of freedom.
		His realization at the conclusion of the novel, the realization that prompts him to return home, is the realization that for him, Anarres is indeed a utopia or close enough to one.
	scifiblogs05.blogspot.com /2005/01/theyre-all-utopiasor-are-they_18.html (432 words)

	THE DISPOSSESSED by Urusla K. LeGuin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Anarres has an atmosphere, but it is largely desert.
		Two hundred years previously, Sherek's ancestors and many other people had been exiled to Anarres from the home planet Urras for trying to make a revolution according to the ideas of a woman anarchist philosopher named Odo who dies in prison.
		The dispossessed anarchists are free to make whatever kind of society they want on Anarres and the home planet will send them supplies in exchange for the ore that they mine.
	www.motherbird.com /disposses.htm (428 words)

	CoEN: Expressions: anarres
		I would like to visit the world of Anarres in Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, but in the book's setting, Terra (Earth) is a post-apocalyptic world that is only in contact with other planets due to the altruism of another world that gave them means to travel.
		On the other hand, the Cetian worlds (Anarres and Urras, which revolve around one another and both around the star Tau Ceti) are eleven light years away, so I would certianly enjoy the trip.
		Most of all, I think Anarres would be a world where I might finally feel comfortable, or at least have a better chance of finding geeks wherever I am.
	castle.geek.net /expressions/000085.html (249 words)

	BigCityLit - New York Edition
		Anarres is a world of true common ownership: There is no state, not even a government, to own productive property in the name of the people.
		But in times of crisis, such as the long drought Anarres goes through, peer pressure is very strong to accept a post, even if it is in a remote location and it requires the employee to be away from his/her partner for a long period of time.
		Unlike the anarchists of Anarres, who have a world essentially handed to them--because authorities on Urras apparently decided this would be a way of getting rid of their troublemakers--the Martians of Mr.
	wwwnyc.bigcitylit.com /oct2001/contents/Reviews.html (4705 words)

	Le Guin's World - Encyclopedia for the Dispossessed
		Abbeney was originally a mining town called Anarres Town.
		When Shevek first landed on Urras his first stop was the university Ieu Eun, in Nio Esseia.
		A brilliant physicist from Anarres, inventor of the ansible.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/e_dispos.html (353 words)

	The Dispossessed
		The anarchists on Anarres struggle to wrest a bare subsistence from their adopted world.
		"Anarres is something special: a bleak, unyielding planet, it has been colonized by a self-exiled band of idealists whose only desire is to put into practice the Utopian vision of their great sage Odo.
		anarchist society in conformance to the ideals of the early French socialists, Anarres is a pretty nifty place.
	doggo.tripod.com /doggdispossessed.html (1438 words)

	DaveMcW vs. anarres
		Turn 44: Anarres and I agree to trade masonry/pottery for alphabet/wheel.
		Turn 46: Anarres has sold contact with me to the richest civs.
		Since anarres does not have mysticism, I change my research to polytheism in 40 turns.
	www.davemcw.freeservers.com /civ3/anarres2.html (192 words)

	Study Guide for Ursula LeGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)
		The philosophy of Anarres was provided by the philosopher Laia Odo, the founder of Odonianism.
		A "syndic" would be a representative of a "syndicate." Although now the term is used almost exclusively in the popular press in the expression "crime syndicate," syndicalism was at one time an important movement for social reform, urging the formation of voluntary groups to own and democratically control factories and other means of production.
		Explain this statement: "That the Odonian society on Anarres had fallen short of the ideal did not, in his eyes, lessen his responsibility to it; just the contrary" (hint: the explanation is in the following lines).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/dispossessed.html (5582 words)

	The Dispossessed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The story alternates between episodes from his early life on his home planet Anarres, whose inhabitants are an anarchist colony who have no concept of property or government, and chapters detailing his experiences on Anarres' twin planet Urras, in a society which functions on late capitalist lines.
		It becomes clear that the absence of formal authority on Anarres does not mean that Shevek is free to carry out his own work, but instead that he has to fight against the hidden power structures.
		More fatal, however, is the fact that Anarres has been left alone by Urras only because of a mutually agreed isolation; contact between Anarres and the outside world is limited to a few ore freighters and the dribble of information allowed to flow between scientific institutes.
	explorers.whyte.com /sf/disp.htm (1720 words)

	E221, Science Fiction, Dr. O'Conner
		In the Dispossessed, the world of Anarres is portrayed as the idealistic world, a kind of utopia.
		In the portion of the novel where Sadik is explaining to her parents that the children are mean to her at school, one starts to understand that many elements of Anarres are not the utopia of which the people are so proud.
		This by itself could be taken as mere interaction between children, but it is further emphasized by the way that Takver is treated by her fellow co-workers.
	faculty.millikin.edu /~moconner/e221/post13.html (2820 words)

	Ursula LeGuin--The Dispossessed
		He isn't barred from exploring them--Anarresti society doesn't have those kinds of prohibitive mechanisms--but he is ignored and ostracized, and can't obtain the resources he needs.
		The Dispossessed is two separate stories, told in alternating chapters: of Shevek's life leading up to his decision to leave Anarres, and of what happens once he reaches Urras.
		Anarres-the-idea--an idea of freedom, of change, of human solidarity--represents the best of human nature, the fulfillment of its greatest promise, perhaps even the ultimate evolutionary future of all humankind.
	www.sff.net /people/victoriastrauss/ReviewDispossessed.html (1301 words)

	NetForum - Message Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One thing I see happening here that is similar to other utopias is a utopia being described as a communist society, and also one being described as an advanced, this-fixes-that-problem-which-was-unrealistic-to-ignore kind of society.
		In Urras, he is an Odonian stuck in a capitalistic world that he does not think horrible, yet because he was raised in Anarres, he does not quite fit in yet (perhaps he will in time, but he will never loose his heritage).
		During all those trips he took on Urras in the first few days, he always wanted to see things about Odo: her grave, the prison in which she was incarcerated for so long, the world she had fought against Shevek is unique in many ways.
	athena.english.vt.edu /cgi-bin/netforum/hythloday/a/8--6.4.2.4.0 (647 words)

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