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Links to Other Left Hand of Darkness Websites

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/ --The author's official site that includes biographical and bibliogrpahical information, and links to recent reviews of her work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness -- a very brief overview of the novel that includes links to other websites.The entry for Ursula LeGuin on wikipedia gives a better analysis of her works as a whole.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/gaybooks/lefthandofdarkness.html -- a study guide designed to aid educators in the instruction of Left Hand of Darkness, Includes analysis, chapter summaries, reviews and more. Content is the same as Rebecca Rass's full-length commentary Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness: A Critical Commentary.

http://www.inception-magazine.com/spring04/reviews_lefthand.htm --recent reviw by two average janes published in Inception online magazine.

http://theliterarylink.com/afterword.html - Le Guin’s afterword to The Left Hand of Darkness in which she talks about the problems inherent in trying to describe androgenous beings with a pronoun in English.

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/18/walker18art.htm In her article "Myth, Exchange and History in The Left Hand of Darkness," Jean Murray Walker analyzes the mythology of the left hand of darkness using the theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss.

http://www.yetanotherbookreview.com/left_hand_of_darkness.htm -- an unfavorable book review to spice things up a bit.

http://theliterarylink.com/leftquotes.html -- memorable quotes from the book.

http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/covers/cov7.htm-- a back issue of Science Fiction Studies devoted to the SF of Ursual K. LeGuin, includes full text of all articles