Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

1976

Life on other planets > Life on other planets / Fiction.
Gender identity > Gender identity / Fiction.

Genly Ai, a human ambassador, is sent to the planet Gethen to invite the rival nations living there to join the Terran confederation. Encountering an unusual civilization where sexuality is fluid, Ai has great difficulty understanding the political and interpersonal interactions of beings with no set gender. This ground-breaking novel won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and influenced the development of serious, thematic science fiction.

Ace Books

SciFi Corpus

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102699415

English

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