The Left Hand of Darkness
Metadata
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Full Title: The Left Hand of Darkness
- Category:#books
Highlights
- thought experimenter. This is a common denominator of many science-fiction writers, but Le Guin is more ambitious in her choice of experiments than most of her peers, and more assiduous in tracking the consequences of those choices. In The Dispossessed the experiment is “What if a society evolved where nobody owned anything?” In The Left Hand of Darkness it is, “What if gender was not fixed but serially mutable?” (Location 55)