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Several centuries in the future, Genly Ai, a facilitator of sorts, has been sent to the planet Gethen to assess the willingness and ability of its inhhabitants to join a peaceful association of planets. Like Gethen, all these worlds are populated by humans, but the Gethenians are unique in one important respect--they differentiate sexually only periodically, going into estrus and becoming a man or woman, as we would term it. Mr. Ai, as he is usually called, finds this unsettling, in much the sam
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Ursula Le Guin is one of my favorite authors. Her Earthsea series is as lovely as any fantasy series ever, and in fact I plan to reread them again now that I've whetted my appetite for Le Guin's gorgeous prose by reading this book. Her writing is as clear and lovely as ever here, but the story itself just wasn't compelling to me. The main character felt a bit wooden, and his sexuality seemed overly repressed throughout in a way that made no sense to me. The unusual sexuality of the natives was s
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Classic, almost ageless sf, with all of the somewhat drawn-out majesty that this implies. The exploration of gender is intertwined with a wonderful story of two people slowly reaching understanding of each other, and a world being approached by envoys from another planet. Powerful stuff.
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