The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A lone envoy arrives on an icy world to invite its people into a wider human community. Their shifting sexual characteristics challenge his assumptions, while political suspicion threatens his mission. Understanding another world will require more than diplomacy.

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Hugo · 1970 · novel ↗
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