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This is what science fiction and fantasy can do. Becky Chambers, in the introduction to the Folio Society edition It is a whole other accomplishment, for an author of fiction, to write a true story.” It is one thing to write a good story, or a great story. That’s what I see as Le Guin’s ultimate triumph with this book-not the impact it had on me, not the impact it had on the genre, not the exquisite prose that sings with every step. “Perhaps it is enough to say that The Left Hand of Darkness is relevant, full stop. Charlie Jane Anders, in the afterword to the 50th anniversary edition As Genly Ai says on the very first page, ‘Truth is a matter of the imagination.’” And every detail in the book has little stories embedded inside it, and these stories keep intersecting and building on each other every time I revisit them-until you start to realize that everything is made of stories. There are so many wonderful ideas and stark emotional moments, and Le Guin’s language always startles me with its sheer power and wonder. “ The Left Hand of Darkness surprises me again every time I reread it.
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