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The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin.

Summary:

A human emissary sent to the world of Winter to bring it into a galactic civilization must find a way to bridge the gulf between his outlook and that of the natives, who can change gender at will.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0441007317
  • ISBN: 9780441007318
  • Physical Description: xvi, 315 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Ace trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Ace Books, 2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
A Parade in Erhenrang -- Place Inside the Blizzard -- Mad King -- Nineteenth Day -- Domestication of Hunch -- One Way into Orgoreyn -- Question of Sex -- Another Way into Orgoreyn -- Eestraven the Traitor -- Conversations in Mishnory -- Soliloquies in Mishnory -- On Time and Darkness -- Down on the Farm -- Escape -- To the Ice -- Between Drumner and Dremegole -- An Orgota Creation Myth -- On the Ice -- Homecoming -- A Fool's Errand -- Gethenian Calendar and Clock.
Target Audience Note:
970L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7 15 62984.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 8 total copies.
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Marion Library FIC LEG (Text) 37810434148283 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/11/2026

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Summary: A human emissary sent to the world of Winter to bring it into a galactic civilization must find a way to bridge the gulf between his outlook and that of the natives, who can change gender at will.