The Left Hand of Darkness

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She was writing for a long time before she found any kind of success. She finally had a poem published in 59 and then a short story published in 1961. Then Earthsea comes out in 68, Left Hand of Darkness comes out in 69. And that book made her the first woman to win the Hugo Nebula Awards.

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

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