Twelve kinds of taste
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Ciencia-ficción, Hugo Award Winner, Human nature, Gender
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969)
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Meticulous, prestige, richly built and open-ended.
14 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs.
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Le Guin builds a planet to ask one question about gender and then lets the question melt into a friendship. The trek across the ice is the best fifty pages in science fiction.
Le Guin does the thing science fiction is for: change one rule and watch what people become. The friendship on the ice is the best relationship in the genre.
On Open Library, 108 have read it and 559 want to.
“I'LL MAKE my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist". Source: [Wikiped
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“Is this Ursula K. Le Guin's best work?”
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“Would The Left Hand of Darkness hit harder if it came out today rather than in 1969?”
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