Re: (Tears) The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

James Nicoll wrote:

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
 A physicist determined to complete his research emigrates from a planet
of idealists to a planet of economic surpluses.
 https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-best-things-in-life-are-free
 

When reading this book for the first time, I had trouble banishing the image of one of my professors.  I eventually figured out that privations in the second world war had given him some of Shevek's attitude.  Though he was congenial enough, I think he remained faintly surprised, or possibly amused, at the way we ignored the vast wealth in which we lived.
Other characters reminded me strongly of some older socialists I knew. Socialists of the "pitch in and get it done" type, not the champagne type.  LeGuin must have met some people of this class, as they are very well drawn.
William Hyde