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Le Guin, Ursula K.
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Fiction
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2000
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Left Hand of Darkness
โ Scribed by Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Year
- 1969
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 194 KB
- Series
- SF Masterworks 78
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780078149030
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โฆ Synopsis
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 into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love...
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**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
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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
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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