The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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See alternate cover editions . On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with their elaborate social systems and alien minds. But in the course of a long journey across the ice, he reaches an understanding with one of the Gethenians -- it might even be a kind of love

Book Details

ISBN13	9780441478125
ISBN10	0441478123
Series/Work	OL59800W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher	Ace
Pages	304
Language	EN-US
Created At	January 30, 2025
Updated At	April 18, 2025
Last OL update	January 18, 2025

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American literature American Science fiction award:hugo_award=1970 award:hugo_award=novel award:nebula_award=novel Ciencia-ficción collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=winner Extraterrestrial anthropology Fiction Fiction, science fiction, general gender Hugo Award Winner human nature ice age LGBTQ gender identity LGBTQ novels before Stonewall LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy Life on other planets Science fiction Sex role

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