Larger	The Left Hand Of Darkness Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
	Book Information Publisher: Ace Trade Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 0 Rating: 31 ISBN-13: 9780441007318 - ISBN-10: 0441007317 Publication Date: 7/1/2000 Pages: 320 Book Reviews

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.