The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Ursula K. Le Guin 📂 Fiction 📅 1969 🏛 ePubLibre 🌐 English ⚖ 194 KB

Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn in

The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Le Guin, Ursula K. 📂 Fiction 📅 1969 🌐 English ⚖ 194 KB

Genly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male ot female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn in

The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Le Guin, Ursula K. 📂 Fiction 📅 2000 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 212 KB

**Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards** A groundbreaking work of science fiction, **The Left Hand of Darkness** tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civi

The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Ursula K. le Guin 📂 Fiction 📅 1987;2006 🏛 Ace Books;Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic 🌐 English ⚖ 168 KB 👁 2 views

When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune--and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, o

The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Le Guin, Ursula K. 📂 Fiction 📅 1969;2006 🏛 Ace;Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic 🌐 English ⚖ 165 KB 👁 2 views

When **The Left Hand of Darkness** first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Duneand such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter,

The Left Hand of Darkness

✍ Ursula K. Le Guin 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Orbit 🌐 UND ⚖ 167 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of li