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The left hand of darkness / by Ursula K. Le Guin.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Le Guin, U.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018, author.
- Series:
- Ace science fiction special
- An Ace science fiction special
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interplanetary voyages--Fiction.
- Interplanetary voyages.
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Ace Publishing Corporation, [1969]
- Summary:
- While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him.
- Notes:
- Cover painting by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Currey, L.W. Science fiction, page 304
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 42973
- OCLC:
- 181524
- Publisher Number:
- 47800 Ace Books
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