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The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction) by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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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. 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 choose - and change - their gender. 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.“Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own.” - The Boston GlobeEmbracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement i

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Publisher
Turtleback Books
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101665398
Category
science
Subjects
Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
Rating
4.05 / 5 (63,749 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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