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Barriers to Ai’s success include Gethenian pride, antipathy and discord between that world’s rival nation-states, and Ai’s lack of understanding in a global culture fueled by the ambisexual nature of Gethenians.

Some Gethenians, I thought, are like such animals, with deep bright eyes that do not change expression when you speak. Estraven, sweating like ice in the sun, stays slick and cold as ice, answering Tibe’s murmurs aloud in a tone whose commonplace politeness makes the other look rather a fool. They called it Winter.”.

I had dinner at my island and at Fourth Hour striking on the gongs of Remmy Tower I was at the Palace ready for supper.

Science fiction is metaphor. View production, box office, & company info, guiding Celia's rapist to cut his wrists, while she protests. I’m not much taller than the Gethenian norm, but the difference is most noticeable in a crowd. “I’m sorry,” he was saying, “that I’ve had to forestall for so long this pleasure of having you in my house; and to that extent at least I’m glad there is no longer any question of patronage between us.”.

I made no reply.

I shivered as we went out, for it was well below freezing, and he said with polite surprise, “You’re cold?” To him of course it was a mild spring night. Psychologically defined, a symbol.

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