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The left hand of darkness / by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018
- 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:
- 218 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book Club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker, [1969]
- Summary:
- Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties in the mingling and clash of cultures that, over the centuries of separation, have developed widely disparate social and political structures as well as a range of biological differences.
- Contents:
- A parade in Erhenrang
- The place inside the blizzard
- The mad king
- The nineteenth day
- The domestication of hunch
- One way into Orgoreyn
- The question of sex
- Another way into Orgoreyn
- Estraven the traitor
- Conversations in Mishnory
- Soliloquies in Mishnory
- On time and darkness
- Down on the farm
- The escape
- To the ice
- Between Drumner and Dremegole
- An Orgota creation myth
- On the ice
- Homecoming
- A fool's errand
- The Gethenian calendar and clock.
- Notes:
- First printing has gutter code "36K" on page 213, which indicates a printing in September 1969.
- Known reprint codes: "49 L" (December 1970), "44M" (October 1971), "C50" (December 1972), "F2" (January 1975), "H21" (on page 217) (May 1977), "I47" (November 1978), "K03" (January 1980), and "M08".
- Jacket illustration by Jack Gaughan.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has no gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 42979
- Other Format:
- Online version: Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- Left hand of darkness.
- OCLC:
- 37684048
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