Book description
Winter is an Earth-like planet with two major differences: conditions
are semi arctic even at the warmest time of the year, and the
inhabitants are all of the same sex. Tucked away in a remote corner of
the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond
their own world. And when a strange envoy from space brings news of a
vast coalition of planets which they are invited to join, he is met with
fear, mistrust and disbelief. . .
'The Left Hand of Darkness' is a groundbreaking work of feminist
science fiction, an imaginative masterpiece which poses challenging
questions about sexuality, sexism and the organisation of society.
Ursula LeGuin was born in Berkeley, California in 1929. She attended
college at Radcliffe and Columbia, and married C. A. LeGuin in Paris in
1951. The LeGuins and their three children live in Portland, Oregon.
