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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2000, Ace Trade)

The Left Hand of Darkness

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"One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things …

Kurt Vonnegut: Matadero Cinco (Spanish language, 2006, Anagrama)

Matadero Cinco

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2010, Ace Books)

The Left Hand of Darkness

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On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible.

The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his …