The Left Hand of Darkness Mass market paperbound - 1987
by Ursula K. Le Guin; Foreword by David Mitchell; Afterword by Charlie Jane Anders
Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.
Summary
When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune—and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true. In Winter, or Gethen, Ursula K. Le Guin has created a fully realized planet and people. But Gethen society is more than merely a fascinating creation. The concept of a society existing totally without sexual prejudices is even more relevant today than it was in 1969. This special 25th anniversary edition of The Left Hand of Darkness contains not only the complete, unaltered text of the landmark original but also a thought-provoking new afterword and four new appendixes by Ms. Le Guin.
When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions. Instead the ambassador finds himself wildly unprepared. For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither. This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life. But Genly is all too human. Unless he can overcome his ingrained prejudices about the significance of "male" and "female," he may destroy both his mission and himself.
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- Title The Left Hand of Darkness
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin; Foreword by David Mitchell; Afterword by Charlie Jane Anders
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ace Books, New York
- Date March 15, 1987
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780441478125 / 0441478123
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.3 x 4.1 x 1.1 in (18.54 x 10.41 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 970
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Life on other planets
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 04/25/2008, Page 121
- Library Journal, 09/15/1987, Page 0
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