The Left Hand of Darkness

Kindle Edition, 320 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 30 Luglio 2000 da Ace.

ISBN:
978-1-101-66539-8
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A lone human ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters...

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

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Centinaia di migliaia di anni prima delle vicende del libro la civiltà di Hainish si è sparsa nella galassia per poi collassare e lasciare le decine di pianeti che aveva colonizzato, tra cui la Terra, senza memoria del fatto esistono altri mondi abitati dalla razza umana. Uno di questi mondi è Gethen, un pianeta freddo e senza animali abitato da una razza di esseri minuti che non hanno un sesso definito ma che una volta al mese sviluppano gli attributi maschili o femminili per accoppiarsi. Genly Ai è un maschio terrestre che viene inviato su Gethen per convincere i suoi abitanti a unirsi all’Ecumene, una federazione di mondi che cerca di rimettere in contatto le vecchie colonie umane tramite navi che viaggiano alla velocità della luce (e quindi impiegano anni ad arrivare a destinazione) e l’ansible, un dispositivo in grado di inviare piccole quantità di informazione in maniera istantanea. Dovrà …

Truly one for the 'everyone must read' list

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After an unassuming and somewhat slow start, Le Guin's story and prose builds to a crescendo that includes what must be among the most beautiful portrayals of platonic love in literature.

Thought-provoking and unpredictable from start to finish, The Left Hand of Darkness seems as fresh and relevant today as it did when it was published. The only aspect that seems dated at all is Le Guin's periodic descriptions of masculine and feminine behaviours, pigeonholing that would've gone unremarked in the 70s but which jars today.

Excellent Books from A Different Time

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This book is a collection of five novels and four short stories, as well as an essay and introductions to each of those novels, set in Le Guin's Hainish universe. Each novel contains all the information about the universe necessary to understand that novel, though taken together they reveal a more complex picture than any one alone. The gist is that millions of years ago, the people of a planet called Hain or Davenant seeded various worlds with human colonists. (Though most of these worlds had no previous inhabitants, it is mentioned in one story that hominid life arose independantly on Earth; humans, however, are descended from Hainish settlers.) This serves as a vehicle for exploring humanity in various contexts and situations which otherwise do not exist in real life, as the League of All Worlds - or the Ekumen, in the later novels - started by Hain seeks to …