Book · 1969 · Fiction

The Left Hand of Darkness

Name: The Left Hand of Darkness
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Ace Books · 304 pages

★ 6.8 editorial score

Le Guin removed gender from a civilization and followed every consequence. Her envoy lands on an ice planet where nobody has a fixed sex and survives by crossing a glacier with one ally.

Genre

Science fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Gender Identity Cultural differences

Time

1969Depicts The Future

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