Ursula Le Guin's 1969 Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel set on a world where humans have no fixed gender, using the premise to examine what gender is, what politics and loyalty mean, and what makes us human.
Introduced a gender-fluid alien society in 1969 — long before the mainstream — as a thought experiment about biological determinism, making it the most significant intersection of science fiction and gender theory in the canon.
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