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I'm five chapters into The Left Hand of Darkness. I'm liking it so far, thoughts below.
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This book suffers from a unique form of that common sci-fi phenomena in which people's imagination of the future is limited by their understanding of the present โ in that unlike a lot of sci-fi where that applies to technology, in here it applies to gender. Like, this is a book set somewhere in the far future where us Terrans have relinquished the idea of the nation-state altogether (communism moment? idk) and yet the protagonist is still stuck in conceiving sex and gender as purely binary.Like, the whole point of the book is the protagonist being baffled by the unique sex characteristics of the Gethenians. It's a spec fic story with the premise of "hey what if there was a society of people who only exhibit primary sex characteristics once a month." But of course in so far a future in which nation-states have been dissolved for like thousands of years, I living in 2024 find it hard to believe that Genly Ai would have never come across an intersex and/or nonbinary and/or trans person. In this book there are interstellar insta-communication devices; I feel like by that point we probably would have worked out ways to modify the primary sex characteristics for trans people.
I'm not criticizing Le Guin here; this book was published in 1969. I'm just thinking of what a LHoD would look like if it was written today, where the concept of being nonbinary or intersex is much more widely known.