50th Anniversary Edition – with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a new afterword by Charlie Jane Anders.

Ursula K. Le Guin's groundbreaking work of science fiction – winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A solitary human ambassador is sent to the ice-covered planet Winter, a world without sexual prejudices, where the gender of its inhabitants is fluid. His mission is to facilitate Winter's entry into a growing intergalactic civilization. However, to achieve this, he must bridge the gap between his own views and those of the strange, fascinating culture he encounters.

By embracing aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a milestone in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born in 1929 in Berkeley, California. She was the bestselling author of the Earthsea books and the Hainish novels, including The Left Hand of Darkness, which won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.