Before things continue to count on Japan, playing to tell you about one of the books that I have read this summer. It is "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of the 1969 Nebula and Hugo, 1970.
The plot revolves around the mission Genly Ai, an envoy of the worlds Ekumen league should try to convince world leaders to join Winter to Ekumen. Winter is a planet with harsh weather conditions due to freezing temperatures. Its inhabitants have a peculiar feature: they have no defined genre, only once every 28 days, enter a period of "zeal" which comes out your libido and sex, which can be both male and female, and not always have to be the same. In this way a person can be both mother and father. Asexuality of the inhabitants of the world takes the game to the author to ask how would a society where the characteristics own sex does not exist. Humanity might be more docile and might not have wars, but neither would have the courage necessary to advance society.
This discussion is quite interesting, but the development of this idea comes to convince me not to compensate for certain aspects of the novel that I like less. And is that the characters in the novel does not come, at least to me, to the protagonist Genly Ai and guard in the world Estraven lack some punch. Between the two there is a complex, difficult, complicated and subtle, which may attract more than one, but I do not get finished. Moreover, although the atmosphere is icy world well accomplished, not the argument itself comes to seduce me at all.
Ultimately though it is a novel approach interesting, I do not have become convinced as other winners of the awards mentioned above.
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