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Reading ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ felt like learning how to think again.

Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t just write a sci-fi novel — she wrote a thought experiment that made my brain ache. And I loved every second of it. Imagine landing on a planet where the people have no fixed gender. Imagine trying to understand them, not just linguistically, but philosophically. Imagine realizing — it’s not them that’s hard to understand. It’s you. Reading The Left Hand of Darkness was uncomfortable in the way good literature should be. It stripped me of assumptions. It made me ask: What if gender wasn’t a constant? What if love didn’t need a binary? What if we’re just too limited by Earth-thinking? 📖 It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t fast. But it changed me. Some books make you escape. This one made me return — a little different than before. #Entertainment #Books #ClassicSciFi