Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

Fri, 26 Dec 2003

The Left Hand of Darkness is a winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and Le Guin's if-you-don't-read-anything-else-you-must-read-this. In her introduction she calls the book a thought-experiment, and I find that a good description. The story is about a world where the human inhabitants are completely androgynous and about the effects that such a physiology [...]