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The Left Hand of Darkness
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July 31, 2017
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Genly Ai is an envoy from a federation of planets who share trade, science, and art for the betterment of personkind. He is on a mission to attempt to bring a newly discovered planet into the fold, a harsh and forbidding world that was named Winter by those who first visited. On this world, humans are neither male nor female until they enter their monthly mating cycle, at which point they could become either. This is not the plot of the story, just the backdrop, though the effects of the lack of ...more
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