Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness follows a human envoy to a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed gender, exploring through anthropological fiction how deeply gender shapes all human social institutions. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, it is the most acclaimed gender-explorative novel in science fiction and a landmark of feminist thought.

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