The Left Hand of Darkness

Hainish Cycle

Paperback, 366 pages

English language

Published Sept. 16, 2010 by Ace Books.

ISBN:
9780441478125
OCLC Number:
53345521
Goodreads:
118028

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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

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