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Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most important living American Science Fiction writers. She has received both and awards for her writing. One of her best known novels is the critically acclaimed , which is among the first major works of feminist Science Fiction. The Left Hand of Darkness marks the point when science fiction came into its true political strength.

In Le Guin’s story the world of Winter is a world unlike any other, its inhabitants neither male nor female. The construction of identity – of gender, race and class – is at the heart all of today's political and social struggles.

Le Guin's genius was to show how science fiction could be a powerful tool for dissecting and reconstructing those identities.