A new 50th anniversary edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's landmark science fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness is now available. Released Tuesday, March 12, the special anniversary edition of The ...

Despite the prominent role that Gethenian sexual physiology plays in “The Left Hand of Darkness,” Le Guin admits that she was shy about including much sex in the book, in part because of the ...

The year before, the singular writer Ursula K. Le Guin had already published the best science fiction novel of the year: “The Left Hand of Darkness,” a book not about ray guns or rocket ships ...

Le Guin's 1969 novel "The Left Hand of Darkness" questioned binary concepts of gender. In 1969, Ursula K. Le Guin published a groundbreaking novel called "The Left Hand of Darkness" that ...

The Left Hand of Darkness, a sci-fi tour de force — which grapples with topics like first contact, nationalism, Taoist philosophy, and prophecy — is, at its core, a story about connection, and ...

The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) is one of Le Guin’s most influential works — and a favorite title of book club host, American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Isabella Boylston.

The Left Hand of Darkness is a classic by almost any measure: it's award-winning, having grabbed the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1970; and it is genre-defining — famed literary critic Harold Bloom ...

Perhaps her most popular book is the “thought experiment” titled “The Left Hand of Darkness,” published in 1969, which takes place on a planet in which people do not have gender but go ...

In describing her novel, Le Guin called The Left Hand of Darkness as a “thought experiment.” " I eliminated gender to find out what was left ," she famously wrote of the book.

Hand2Mouth Theatre and Portland Playhouse collaborate on a sometimes ethereal, sometimes straightforward adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's classic science-fiction novel.