Annotation
An envoy is sent to the ice-covered planet Gethen where people can be either male or female at will.
Awards
1970 Hugo Awards
1969 Nebula Awards
Characters
| Name | Genly Ai |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupations | Ambassador |
| Federation agent |
| Genre | Science fiction --Alien worlds Literary Classic Fiction |
| Topics | Gender roles Hermaphrodites Androgyny Colonization |
| Setting | Gethen/Winter (Planet) Isolated, icy planet Planet |
| Series | ||
| The Hainish Cycle | ||
| 1 | Rocannon's world | |
| 2 | Planet of exile | |
| 3 | City of illusions | |
| 4 | The Left hand of darkness | |
| 5 | The Dispossessed | |
| 6 | The Word for world is forest | |
| Four ways to forgiveness (Collection) | ||
| 7 | The Telling | |