Beautiful language and attention to detail; interesting ideas chewed on a tad too much for my taste. I'm shocked that I haven't read any Le Guin before, and will look for more now. Wondering why her books weren't on the shelves at the library back when I read straight across the sci-fi rows, hmmmm. ...
there: "I am without a face among men. I am not seen. I speak and am not heard. I come and am not welcomed. There is no place by the fire for me, nor food on the table for me, nor a bed made for me to lie in.
This story involves the planet of Winter, whose inhabitants have no fixed gender. The story is told party through a report by Genly Ai, a human envoy sent to try to convince the planet to join an interstellar federation. He's our eye into one of the most fascinating and unique of alien worlds--an un...
I was somewhat bored with this book. Also, I didn't know it was the fourth in a series (??).All right, so it's a group of stand-alone books with the same setting. That makes sense.
4 out of 5 StarsGenly Ai has been sent to convince the Gethenians on the Planet Winter to join a planetary alliance. The Gethenians are asexual – they only become male or female once every month. Genly has to learn to navigate his way through the strange rules of this planet and to forge relationshi...
Here are signs that I won't like a book:- Everyone and everywhere has made-up sounding names.- There are tankards of ale.In other words, I don't like fantasy books.But because I am...what? A jackass? I am trying to submit to this book and cast away my prejudices and just enjoy what this is, and it's...
Interesting but ultimately disappointing. Le Guin posits a society of genetically engineered humans who are hermaphroditic — being sexless at most times, but periodically entering kemmer where they may express either male or female attributes.You'd think that she could make a great deal of this, but...
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