#tLHoD

[msphine]

@autoclav3d

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “ekumenical mission to gethen” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever I don’t feel shit

me 5 minutes later: dude I swear i just saw a sarf agent in the kemmerhouse

my buddy estraven pacing: argaven is lying to us

[latelylately]

for tlhod secret santa 2024!

[ringneckedpheasant]

watercolors by trans artist tuesday smilie

[littlestpersimmon]

Genly Ai

[baytadax]

Fear is very useful. Like darkness, like shadow.

[mourningmaybells]

Ursula K. Le Guin would do numbers on tumblr

[kailysander]

The Left Hand of Darkness

[chernychnyi]

exiles

[art-of-pluton]

"Like the end and the way"

I think about The Left Hand of Darkness literally every day since I first read it in july

[agoddamneddelight]

the outer space guys are rotating in my brain !!! 🪐 🌎🚀

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 3

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle series)

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants spend most of their time without a gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.

Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Science fiction, classics, speculative fiction, anthropological science fiction, distant future, adult

[hermitmoss]

Illustrations by David Lupton from the Folio Society edition of The Left Hand of Darkness.

[latelylately]

genly in karhide

[ringneckedpheasant]

[strangers in a strange land, wanderers in a vast and unknowable universe]

[asparklethatisblue]

That’s not very interplanetary diplomacy of you, Estraven…

[eveningalchemist]

Sometimes when I see 'ai' here I get excited because I think it is my silly always chilly guy, Genly Ai from the 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, but no, it is generative AI, my enemy in the least fun way possible.