The Left Hand of Darkness

Description

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS is a science fiction novel unlike any you've read before. It is a novel of exotic adventure on a far planet whose people are completely human but for one thing: they are all of the same sex.The lack of sexual differentiation on the planet Winter provides the powerful theme of this book, but it is in no sense a "sensational" novel. As you see this world through the eyes of Earth's first envoy, caught up in subtle intrigues among the nations of Winter, battling across immense and forbidding ice-fields in a desperate bid for survival, you'll come to understand gradually and with wonder what it is to be an alien being ... and what it is to be human.