The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin - Book Review
The Left Hand of Darkness By Ursula le Guin Rating 5/5 💘 💘 Genres : 2021-read, science fiction, classics, gender assignment, fiction, aliens Such a marvelous read! This is my first book by the author and I love the writing style of Ursulawhich has a flowy, lyrical style to it. 💘 Its a deeply intuitive and explorative story where a human being from Earth is sent as an envoy to an alien planet which is covered in snow and ice most of the year and people there are genetically engineered to be gender neutral. What does gender neutral mean? Well, a person cannot be classified either into a man or woman but is rather both at the same time. How can that be? Well, the Gethenians - Gethen is the planet name - are sexually inactive and insipid most of the month and for a week or so they go into a phase of kemmering - just like it happens with several species of animal kingdom - during which they mate and either of the partner can become male/female and...