the Left Hand of Darkness" Trilogy (2025 Edition)
by J
About This Novel
She is worthy of being the legendary queen in the world of fantasy literature! 6 Hugo Awards, 6 Nebula Awards, 21 Locus Awards, World Fantasy Award, National Book Award... One of the "Three Giants of Fantasy Fiction"! Liu Cixin: The book "The Left Hand of Darkness" is very literary, but it describes human nature from an additional angle, because one person in the work has two genders. This kind of work reveals human nature much more profoundly. "The Left Hand of Darkness": I saw another self in the stranger at the end of the universe. "The Man Who Lost Everything": Ideal is not everything, but losing your ideal is like losing everything. "The Word of the World is Forest": There is a mirror deep in the universe, and you can see your true self. On the cold winter star, there lives a group of asexual people who can freely choose their gender. On a special day each month, they are free to become a man or a woman. A special envoy of the Interstellar Alliance was sent to the Winter Star to complete a secret mission.
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I've won 6 Hugo Awards!
Good books, study hard
A very good novel. The author's profound vision and rich imagination have won praise from all over the world.
Not a very hard science fiction work
The first two books were too obscure in their reflections and explorations on society, human nature, systems, etc., And I often felt dizzy and dozed off while reading them. The shortest one, the Asshan planet in the third part is said to be the prototype of Avatar. The conflict in this one is more intense, so I felt a little unfinished after reading it.
A very meaningful book
dark left hand
The imagination is okay, the fluidity of gender may amplify human nature, personality and self. But it's hard not to care when a brother turns into a wife and a best friend turns into a husband. Personally, I can't adapt to it.
It's hard to imagine that someone wrote this in 1642. I love the vast universe in the writer's mind.
Very imaginative
A very imaginative novel with an engaging plot.
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I've won 6 Hugo Awards!
Good books, study hard
A very good novel. The author's profound vision and rich imagination have won praise from all over the world.
Not a very hard science fiction work
The first two books were too obscure in their reflections and explorations on society, human nature, systems, etc., And I often felt dizzy and dozed off while reading them. The shortest one, the Asshan planet in the third part is said to be the prototype of Avatar. The conflict in this one is more intense, so I felt a little unfinished after reading it.
A very meaningful book
dark left hand
The imagination is okay, the fluidity of gender may amplify human nature, personality and self. But it's hard not to care when a brother turns into a wife and a best friend turns into a husband. Personally, I can't adapt to it.
It's hard to imagine that someone wrote this in 1642. I love the vast universe in the writer's mind.
Very imaginative
A very imaginative novel with an engaging plot.
One blade tail curve Immediately
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✒✒[Hugo/Nebula's award-winning feature works over the years A]✒✒ 1953Hugo "The Destruction" Alfred 1954Hugo not awarded 1955Hugo "They'd Rather Be Right" 1956Hugo "Double Star" Robert Heinlein 1957Hugo not awarded 1958Hugo "Grand Era" Fritz Leiber 1959Hugo "A Matter of Conscience" James Blish 1960Hugo "Starship Troopers" Robert Heinlein 1961Hugo "Hymn to Leibovitz" Little Walter 1962Hugo "A Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert Heinlein 1963Hugo "The Man in the High Castle" Philip K. Dick 1964Hugo's "Star Station" Clifford Simak 1965Hugo "The Wandering Star" Fritz Leiber Nebula "Dune" Frank Herbert 1966Hugo "Dune" Frank Herbert "Immortal" Roger Zelazny Nebula "Tower of Babel-17" Samuel Delaney "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Case 1967Hugo "Hard Moon" Heinlein Nebula "Einstein Crossing" R. Delaney 1968Hugo "Lord of Light" Roger Zelazny Nebula "Rite of Passage" Alexey Pansin 1969Hugo "Standing on Zanzibar" John Brunner Nebula "The Left Hand of Darkness" Ursula Le Guin 1970Hugo "The Left Hand of Darkness" Ursula Le Guin Nebula "Ringworld" Larry Niven 1971Hugo "Ringworld" Larry Niven Nebula "The Moment of Change" Silverberg 1972Hugo "Into Your Scattered Body" Fama Nebula "The Gods Ourselves" Isaac Asimov 1973Hugo "The Gods Ourselves" Isaac Asimov Nebula "Meet Rama" Arthur C. Clarke 1974Hugo "Meet Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke Nebula "Nothing" Ursula Le Guin 1975Hugo "Nothing" Ursula Le Guin Nebula "Thousand Years of War" Joe Haldeman
If gender were eliminated, would war be eliminated? There is an anthropological hypothesis: "War is purely a male replacement activity, a large-scale rape." Does eliminating gender mean "the elimination of men who initiate rape and women who are raped?"
