01246nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005804000080007604100080008408200210009210000220011310000240013524500260015926000450018530000440023036500410027450000560031552006270037165000200099865000100101820220820101305.0210929b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781473221628  cSAC  aeng  223a813.54bGUIL  aUrsula K. Le Guin  dGUIN (Ursula K. Le)  aLeft hand of darkness  aLondonbOrion Publishing Group Ltdc2017  axii, 304p.bPBc10.67 x 2.31 x 19.3 cm.  a2557b509c₹d599e15%f27-09-2021  awinner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel  aGenly Ai is an ethnologist observing the people of the planet Gethen, a world perpetually in winter. The people there are androgynous, normally neuter, but they can become male or female at the peak of their sexual cycle. They seem to Genly Ai alien, unsophisticated and confusing. But he is drawn into the complex politics of the planet and, during a long, tortuous journey across the ice with a politician who has fallen from favour and has been outcast, he loses his professional detachment and reaches a painful understanding of the true nature of Gethenians and, in a moving and memorable sequence, even finds love…  aScience Fiction  2Novel