The Left Hand of Darkness Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
	Book Information Publisher: Harpercollins Book Type: Hardcover Members Wishing: 2 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780060125745 - ISBN-10: 0060125748 Publication Date: 6/1980 Pages: 213

Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where people are androgynous, and may be either gender at will, this is a broad gulf indeed. The inventiveness and delicacy with which Le Guin portrays her alien world are not only unusual and inspiring, they are fundamental to almost all decent science fiction that has been written since.