The left hand of darkness
by Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,
| Print Book 2010 |
| Available at 3 Libraries 3 of 3 copies |
Summary
50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION--WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS
Ursula K. Le Guin's groundbreaking work of science fiction--winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants' gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin's groundbreaking work of science fiction--winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants' gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...
Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.
Contents
A parade in ErhenrangThe place inside the blizzard
The mad king
The nineteenth day
The domestication of Hunch
One way into Orgoreyn
The question of sex
Another way into Orgoreyn
Estraven the traitor
Conversations in Mishnory
Soliloquies in Mishnory
On time and darkness
Down on the farm
The escape
To the ice
Between Drumner and Dremegole
An Orgota creation myth
On the ice
Homecoming
A fool's errand
The Gethenian calendar and clock.
Additional Information
| Series |
Hainish Cycle #1 - Rocannon's world #2 - Planet of exile #3 - City of illusions #4 - The Left hand of darkness #5 - The Dispossessed #6 - The Word for world is forest #7 - Four ways to forgiveness (Collection) #8 - The Telling |
| Subjects |
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction. |
| Publisher | New York, New York :Ace Books,2010 |
| Edition | Ace premium edition. |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
xix, 330 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN | 9780441478125 0441478123 |
| Other | Classic View |