THE FICTION OF IDEALS
This is it. I've found it. I can't believe there's such a perfectly well-defined sub-genre that perfectly enraptures my taste in novels. I'm a big-ideal sci-fi kinda guy all the way. In the Left Hand of Darkness the ideals of gender and their role in society, love and survival are explored in a harsh and honest way. The constructs of gender are all around us. In a way, it’s what everything is built around in our world. In this book, on a winter world with beings that have no gender, the main character (a male human) must let go of his toxic masculinity in order to survive. It’s an incredible story, and the transformation the main character undergoes is so subtle that by the end of the story and he’s with humans again in all of their gendered glory, he’s uncomfortable around them and finally notices all the ways gender takes form. 10/10 I love that book so much.
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