Ecotopia vs The Dispossessed: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Utopias, Science Fiction, Fiction
Ecotopia
“The Times-Post is at last able to announce that William Weston, our top international affairs reporter, will spend six weeks in Ecotopia, beginning next week.”
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the…
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The Dispossessed
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Dispossessed highest: The Dispossessed 4.3 · Ecotopia 3.6.
- Ecotopia is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 6 for The Dispossessed.
- The Dispossessed has the widest readership — 15473 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Ecotopia | The Dispossessed | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (6361) | 4.3 (15473) |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (21) | 4.2 (881) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (41) | — |
Reception
| Ecotopia | The Dispossessed | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6361 | 15473 |
| Editions | 31 | 75 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 9122 | 242459 |
| Reading it now | 420 | — |
| Written reviews | 830 | 15473 |
| Wikipedia attention | 1338 | 22377 |
| Pages | 223 | 352 |