TheLeftHandofDarkness

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K.Leguin The Ekumen 04 WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD AND THE NEBULA AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR 1969 Dedication: For Charles, sine quo non CONTENTS Introduction - added in 1976 1. A Parade in Erhenrang 2. The Place Inside the Blizzard 3. The Mad King 4. The Nineteenth Day 5. The Domestication of Hunch 6. One Way into Orgoreyn 7. The Question of Sex 8. Another Way into Orgoreyn 9. Estraven the Traitor 10. Conversations in Mishnory 11. Soliloquies in Mishnory 12. On Time and Darkness 13. Down on the Farm 14. The Escape 15. To the Ice 16. Between Drumner and Dremegole 17. An Orgota Creation Myth 18. On the Ice 19. Homecoming 20. A Fool’s Errand The Gethenian Calendar and Clock Introduction - SCIENCE FICTION IS often described, and even defined, as extrapolative. The science fiction writer is supposed to take a trend or phenomenon of the here- and-now, purify and intensify it for dramatic effect, and extend it into the future. “If this goes on, this is what will happen.” A prediction is made. Method and results much resemble those of a scientist who feeds large doses of a purified ......