This book has been my introduction to the Le Guin sci-fi writing (I’ve read only her Earthsea cycle before), and I can say that I enjoyed it a lot. It is definitely an old-school sci-fi and is busy exploring political and socio-economical problems of the Western culture. There is a great deal if science talk, which, honestly, I didn’t get, but it wasn’t a big problem.
The story follows a physicist from an anarchist planet of Anarres, who comes to visit his mother planet of sorts that resembles our Earth regards its political structures. Throughout the novel we are faced with a comparison of the two worlds, but what I like about it, we are not forced to accept any of them as the ideal one. I loved the mix of hope and melancholy that infuses the book, and would gladly follow the author on another space exploration.