The Left Hand of Darkness
An envoy is sent to an icebound planet whose people have no fixed sex, to persuade its rival nations to join an interstellar alliance.
- Type
- Book
- Released
- 1969
- Author
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Critics' average
- 85/100 across 1 published score
Genres
Science fiction · Social science fiction · Alien encounter
What it feels like
Gender & sexuality · Politics & social systems · First contact & the alien · Love & connection · Contemplative
Connected stories
- Shares a creator with A Wizard of Earthsea
- Also in Hainish Cycle: The Dispossessed