The Left Hand of Darkness: 50th Anniversary Edition50TH 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Place Inside the Blizzard | 21 |
The Mad King | 27 |
The Nineteenth Day | 43 |
The Domestication of Hunch | 47 |
One Way into Orgoreyn | 71 |
The Question of Sex | 89 |
Another Way into Orgoreyn | 97 |
Down on the Farm | 165 |
The Escape | 185 |
To the Ice | 201 |
Between Drumner and Dremegole | 221 |
An Orgota Creation Myth | 237 |
On the Ice | 241 |
Homecoming | 263 |
A Fools Errand | 285 |
Estraven the Traitor | 123 |
Conversations in Mishnory | 129 |
Soliloquies in Mishnory | 147 |
On Time and Darkness | 161 |
The Gethenian Calendar and Clock | 301 |
Afterword by Charlie Jane Anders | 305 |
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