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«Obdelennye» Ursuly Le Guin — prodolzhenie Haynskogo cikla, odnogo iz velichayshih obrazcov zhanra nauchnoy fantastiki. Planeta Urras ohvachena beskonechnoy vrazhdoy. Poltora veka nazad posle uspeshnogo vosstaniya lidery Urrasa zaklyuchili sdelku s revolyucionerami i otpravili ih na zaselenie neobitaemoy sosedney planety Anarres. Seychas obshchestvo Anarresa — eto utopicheskiy anarhizm, v nem net deneg, sobstvennosti, praviteley, policii i zakonov. Odnako pod fasadom formal'nostey skryvaetsya protivorechivaya real'nost': vmesto reglamentnogo nachal'stva — obshchestvennoe mnenie i avtoritet, vmesto rabotodateley i nayma — dobrovol'nyy trud, ostavlyayushchih mnogih talantlivyh lyudey v storone vvidu «nenuzhnosti» ih sposobnostey. Fizik SHevek — odin iz nih. On rabotaet nad nauchnoy teoriey, kotoraya mozhet stat' proryvom i navsegda izmenit' mezhgalakticheskuyu civilizaciyu, no iz-za obshchestvennogo stroya i zavistlivyh kolleg ego trudy mogut nikogda ne uvidet' svet. Uchenomu neobhodimo otpravit'sya na Urras i postavit' na kon vsyo, chtoby poluchit' shans opublikovat' svoi issledovaniya. Ambicii SHeveka privedut ego k gorazdo bol'shim opasnostyam, chem on predpolagal, — on okazhetsya v epicentre mezhplanetnogo konflikta. Hvatit li u uchenogo reshimosti, chtoby podvergnut' somneniyam aksiomy i ob'edinit' mezhdu soboy dva vrazhduyushchih mira?