The Left Hand of Darkness

by Le Guin, Ursula K.

• ISBN13: 9780441007318
• ISBN10: 0441007317
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101665398
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Ace Trade
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Summary

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. 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 completely dissimilar culture that 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
A Parade in Erhenrang	1	(20)
The Place Inside the Blizzard	21	(6)
The Mad King	27	(16)
The Nineteenth Day	43	(4)
The Domestication of Hunch	47	(24)
One Way into Orgoreyn	71	(18)
The Question of Sex	89	(8)
Another Way into Orgoreyn	97	(26)
Estraven the Traitor	123	(6)
Conversations in Mishnory	129	(18)
Soliloquies in Mishnory	147	(14)
On Time and Darkness	161	(4)
Down on the Farm	165	(20)
The Escape	185	(16)
To the Ice	201	(20)
Between Drumner and Dremegole	221	(16)
An Orgota Creation Myth	237	(4)
On the Ice	241	(22)
Homecoming	263	(22)
A Fool's Errand	285	(16)
The Gethenian Calendar and Clock	301