The Left Hand of Darkness in On Paths Unknown

Aug 21, 2022 Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: hugo-awards-winner, novels, nebula-award-winner, series, fiction, sci-fi, american-20th-c

Considered by many one of the greatest sci-fi books ever, this was a splendid read. I loved the idea of the strange bi-sexuality of the aliens who change sex periodically during periods of kemmer (see also Coming of Age in Karhide). Our protagonist has come to a somewhat primitive planet in order to try to win them to his Ekumen planetary association. There is a some great action here as we deal with a border struggle, a mad king, a death-defying trip across a glacier, the love that forms betwee ...more

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Feb 25, 2018 P.E. rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction

Read in the French translation by Jean Bailhache.

Ursula K. Le Guin shares some genuinely original views about alternative family models and delivers some gorgeous depictions of a large-scale, coherent universe set mostly on the frozen rims of a backwater of a planet.

Soundscape :
3055 - Ólafur Arnalds

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Vues pénétrantes d'Ursula K. Le Guin sur des formes de familles qui diffèrent de la famille nucléaire traditionnelle.
Beaux passages d'envolée poétique dans le monas ...more

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Jul 01, 2020 Alex Ankarr rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literary-fiction, science-fiction-and-fantasy, classics

Really, what is there left to say? One of the greatest books ever written. If you haven't read it then your life is short of something essential. ...more

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Feb 16, 2023 Torjus rated it really liked it

Tredje lesning av Ursula Le Guins verk og mine meninger forblir de samme.

Første lesning var forvirrende og slitsom. Andre lesning (som var i forbindelse med Bachelor-emne) var givende, og siden bokas landskap allerede var utforska på forhånd, hadde jeg tid og krefter til å titte rundt og reflektere over den dypt filosofiske tematikken Le Guin presenterer, og valgte også å holde innlegg om verket i forbindelse med studiene. Tredje lesning gjorde jeg av savn, men fant til min store overraskelse a ...more

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Jul 27, 2021 meowdeleine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: pantheon

(this is part of my project to read one novel a day beginning July 23 2021 check out my site madeleinesinging.github.io for updates and previous reads)

Ursula Le Guin shines and shines. Humbling and generative. There are many passages in here I want to commit to memory. A book to come back to. (More comprehensive review on my site.)

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