A review by barschuft
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

4.0

This book, as many have said, is an avatar for the science fiction genre. The book explores contemporary issues, assumptions, and biases around gender, sex, conflict and culture. Le Guin does this directly and admirably through an otherworldly and futuristic setting. I enjoyed the unreliable narrator she employs to explore Gethenian culture. Her switching between narrators later in the book also added to the theme of duality and it's relationship to wholeness, both in persons and in the universe.