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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Ursula Le Guin boldly went where few science fiction writers went before – on to the pages of The New Yorker, into the hallowed halls of Stanford University and other premier institutions to serve as writer in residence, to more than a half dozen other institutions of higher learning to pick up honorary degrees. Somehow Le Guin found the magic formula t…

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