Displaying 1 of 1 2004 Title: The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. Le Guin. Author: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018. Summary: The Terrans have sent a landing party to Gethan and what they find are a people outside their understanding, who do not see one another as men or women, strong or weak. Format: Book Description: 286 p. ; 22 cm. Genre: Fantasy fiction. Subjects: Science fiction. Publisher, Date: New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2004, c1969. Notes: Originally published: New York : Walker, 1969. ISBN: 0760759146 (hc) 9780760759141 (hc) Other Number: 56769719 System Availability: 1 # System items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Hold for Me Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Copies Available Tags, Other Editions, Similar Titles Fiction/Biography Profile Awards 1969 - Nebula Award for Best Novel winner1970 - Hugo Award for Best Novel winner1995 - James Tiptree, Jr. Retrospective Award winner1970 - Australian Science Fiction Achievement (Ditmar) Award for Best International Long Fiction nominee1975 - Locus Poll Award for Best All-Time Novel (3rd place)1987 - Locus Poll Award for Best All-Time SF Novel (2nd place)1998 - Locus Poll Award for All-Time Best SF Novel Before 1990 (3rd place) Characters Genly Ai (Male), Ambassador, Federation agent Genre Science fictionLiteraryClassicFiction Topics Gender rolesHermaphroditesAndrogynyColonization Setting Gethen/Winter (Planet) Time Period Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewIn this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
