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	Gethen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gethen is the fictional planet where the action develops in the science fiction novel "The Left Hand of Darkness", by Ursula K. Le Guin.
		Gethen's axis is not tilted (as is the case with Earth), but a relatively high orbital eccentricity produces global seasons.
		The inhabitants of Gethen are androgynes, biologically hermaphroditic humans; for approximately three weeks of each month they are biologically neuter, and for the remaining week are male or female, as determined by pheromonal negotiation with an interested sex partner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gethen (555 words)

	The North - Gethen Barrens
		Gethen Barrens Gothlund Maerlund Mourne The Taiga Tamaraith Highlands Tanglewood Vale of Erryn Velwyth
		Gethen was formed in the latter years of the Second Age by a number of human, elf and dwarf clans.
		Gethen played a crucial role in the rebuilding of the western nations following the Horde Wars of the early first century, allowing trade routes to pass relatively unhindered from the west-coast nations to those around the Inner Sea.
	www.gwelith.co.uk /geography/gethen.html (730 words)

	Le Guin's World - Hainish Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Estraven was "the King's Ear" during the reign of king Argaven XV of Karhide on Gethen.
		Gethen's period of revolution is 8401 Terran Standard Hours or.96 of the Terran Standard Year.
		The "antarctic" continent on the planet Gethen - I assume this means it is on the southern (whatever that means) hemisphere.
	hem.passagen.se /peson42/lgw/hain.html (4331 words)

	Classic Science Fiction Reviews
		His job is to introduce the icy planet of Gethen into the Ekumen, a loose consortium of 80 worlds that trade in knowledge as well as goods.
		He offers Gethen a single voice describing the friends to be had among the stars, and he travels among the local people, learning what hidden observers cannot.
		Gethen itself is a fascinating world, with distinct, carefully developed cultures sharing in common an outlook born out of their frozen climate and their androgyne nature.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue116/classic.html (645 words)

	The Left Hand of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the first major works of "feminist science fiction" (although Le Guin dislikes such labels), it is the account of the efforts of a man named Genly Ai, a representative from a galactic federation of worlds (the Ekumen), who seeks to bring the world of Gethen into that society.
		The inhabitants of Gethen are androgynes, biologically hermaphroditic humans; for twenty four days of each twenty six day Kemmer cycle they are biologically neuter, and for the remaining two days are male or female, as determined by pheromonal negotiation with an interested sex partner.
		The Gethenians were genetically engineered for this characteristic long ago, possibly to maximize reproductive success on the harsh glaciated world of Gethen, or because the ancient biological engineers were curious about what such people would be like.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness (679 words)

	Baby inspires crash victim to rally - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Gethen, 22, of McKees Rocks, was driving a Schwan's food delivery truck along Route 837 in Clairton on June 17 when his life changed forever.
		Gethen was initially declared dead at the scene, but when rescuers finally reached him, they found a faint pulse.
		Gethen was taken to HealthSouth on July 8 to begin physical rehabilitation.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/dailyheadlines/s_166040.html (690 words)

	Brain injuries an invisible trauma - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Steve Gethen marks down his daily tasks in his Palm Pilot -- who needs to be called, where he has to go, even when to do laundry.
		Gethen suffered a severe head injury that damaged the thalamus, a vital part of the brain, in a June 17, 2003, crash in Clairton.
		Gethen hopes to help people in his position someday, but knows it'll take time.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/health/s_436743.html (697 words)

	John's Book Reviews: The Left Hand of Darkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gethen is known as Winter to the visitor, an icy planet that maintains a chill to his very bones (and which allows LeGuin to express her extensive familiarity with frozen Antarctic geography).
		Gethen's inhabitants also display a unique sexuality for which this book is famous.
		Ai is befriended by a high official of one nation on Gethen, but Ai is suspicious of motives everywhere he turns, and this is usually because of his misunderstanding of Gethen psychology.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~jmcd/book/revs2/lhod.html (385 words)

	Fredric Jameson- World Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative
		The "official" message of the book, however, would seem to be rather different than this, involving a social and historical meditation on the institutions of Karhide and the capacity of that or any other society to mount full-scale organized warfare.
		Gethen thus stands as an attempt to imagine an experimental landscape in which our being-in-the-world is simplified to the extreme, and in which our sensory links with the multiple and shifting perceptual fields around us are abstracted so radically as to vouchsafe, perhaps, some new glimpse as to the ultimate nature of human reality.
		The reading we have proposed of Le Guin's experimental ecology suggests, however, the existence of yet a third and quite distinct technique of variation which it will be the task of the remainder of this analysis to describe.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/7/jameson7art.htm (4477 words)

	Review -- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
		Gethen, called Winter by its rediscoverers, is one of the many worlds seeded with humans by the ancient explorers from Hain.
		Until the people of Gethen accept him for what he is, he will remain there.
		But Gethen is not an easy world for a Terran to live upon.
	members.tripod.com /~kimmel/bookstore/lefthandofdarkness.html (269 words)

	[No title]
		Maybe Le Guin is trying to open the eyes of men by creating a culture that follows these physical rules or, perhaps, she is just creating her ideal world, one were everyone understands the feelings and processes of reproduction from both the male and the female perspectives.
		For example, Genly learns from the Gethens that things are not always what they seem, that grass is not always greener on the other side, and that the sex of a person does not determine their ability to be a loyal friend and a source of knowledge.
		While I think it was important to mention that Gethen had two different religions, I do not understand why it was necessary to provide a story on the one religion that did not seem to play any role in Genly’s quest.
	www.parl.clemson.edu /~cachest/SF/journal7.doc (998 words)

	LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS - Ursula K. LeGuin - Penguin Books
		When the human ambassador Genly Ai is sent to Gethen, the planet known as Winter by those outsiders who have experienced its arctic climate, he thinks that his mission will be a standard one of making peace between warring factions.
		For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue—a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither.
		This lack of fixed gender, and the resulting lack of gender-based discrimination, is the very cornerstone of Gethen life.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780441478125,00.html (268 words)

	Felix Gethen, Associate Composer, Australian Music Centre
		Born in London, Felix Gethen studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music.
		Gethen moved to Sydney in 1971 on becoming Federal Executive of Orchestras, and in 1976 was sent to England as Music Adviser to the London Office of the ABC.
		A supporter of Australian composition, Gethen served on the organising committees of two significant composers' seminars held in Hobart in 1963 and 1965, and has conducted studio broadcasts by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra which have included works by Australian composers.
	www.amcoz.com.au /composers/composer.asp?id=667 (227 words)

	The Dead of Winter Chronicle Part 9
		Gethen Barrens, September 1043TA - Destroying the Orb and Hunting Vettori.
		Gethen Barrens, September 1043TA - The Fane of Shadows.
		Both spells locate them to the northern Gethen Barrens, with the dragon-rider being located in the 'Fane of Shadows'.
	www.gwelith.co.uk /campaign/winter/wchron9.html (2020 words)

	Hernando: Son's destination: bad news
		Gary Gethen, 51, is relieved that his parents aren't around to see the ruins.
		The Gethens aren't due back until next week at the earliest, and Gary Gethen wants the house emptied by then.
		Careful not to add to the injury, the dutiful son lays an old towel at the edge of the carpeted dining room floor to keep from tracking dirt across its surface.
	sptimes.com /2004/09/29/news_pf/Hernando/Son_s_destination__ba.shtml (690 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		LeGuin, always one to be on the leading edge of philosophical and speculative thought, presented a very different (deviant???) view of gender and gender relations...not to mention relations between different "cultures." Although portraying the beings on Gethen as human, she did so with a huge difference from our own "polarity" of males and females.
		When Genly Ai (a dark skinned male) arrives on Gethen (in the kingdom/nation of Karhide) he is confronted with not only social, political, and economic differences...but also fundamental gender differences, too.
		While Ai may travel to the other nations on Gethen, Estraven is a man without a country and lives under a death penalty if he were ever to return to Karhide.
	www.angelfire.com /or/sociologyshop/lefthand.html (590 words)

	Amazon.com: The Left Hand of Darkness (Virago Modern Classics): Books: Ursula K. Le Guin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Left Hand of Darkness is set on Gethen, or Winter, a planet that has arctic conditions most of the year.
		Gethen is also unique in that the people are unisexual, changing to female or male form on a monthly cycle called kemmer.
		As Ai explores the rest of Gethen and its varied societies, he is helped again and again by Estraven, whom he at first mistrusts.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1860491898?v=glance (2995 words)

	Australian Music Centre Catalogue
		Introduction & rondo : for violin solo and orchestra / by Felix Edwards Gethen.
		Nocturne : for horn in F / F.E. Gethen.
		Rhapsody for viola & orchestra / by Felix Edwards Gethen.
	www.amcoz.com.au /opac/name.aspx?id=667 (230 words)

	Examining Our Gender Based Society Through Ursula K LeGuin's book The Left Hand of Darkness
		The problem with dividing human into the two sexes is that along with the gender we have been divided into the active and passive, the dominant and submissive.
		On Gethen there is no such division of the people.
		It is through Genly AI's experience on Gethen that we see how much gender is a part of our life and dominates our existence.
	www.mignogna.org /papers/term.html (1559 words)

	Gethen to aim for off-the-shelf custom supplies: News from Gresham Power Electronics
		This is a significant move in Gresham's strategy to add value to all the products offered in Europe by the three group companies, Telkoor, Digital Power and Gresham.
		This new appointment will further enable customer specific applications to be addressed leading to Gresham's ultimate aim of providing "off the shelf custom" power supplies.
		Gethen has a broad experience of the electronics industry from the control and measurement markets and was most recently Applications Engineer with Powerbox, where he worked on added value projects and custom power supply designs.
	www.electronicstalk.com /news/ges/ges103.html (337 words)

	Steve's Hugo Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The book deals with the world of Gethen where the people are either male, female or kind of neuter (not quite hermaphrodites, they don't have both organs working at once.) For about 7 days a month the Gethenians become sexually active and find a partner.
		Hormonal changes happen and the Gethenian become either male or female for the temporary mating period, and their partner becomes the opposite sex (unless they become a woman and are pregnant.
		The basic upshot of the book is that Gethen is one of many worlds that the "Hain" seeded (so's Earth).
	home.comcast.net /~sparker9/hw/hw16.html (914 words)

	Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
		He has come as an envoy from a galactic league of planets, and cannot escape the feeling that these beings are alternately sexless or homoerotic, too "effeminate" to be men and too "masculine" to be women.
		In her introduction to "Winter's King" (also set on Gethen, and also originally published in 1969), LeGuin attributes the masculine bias of the novel to her male narrator's prejudices.
		This locale is called "unshadow" on Gethen, since everything is light, but the lack of shadows does not yet enable one to see clearly.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_leguin_lefthand.html (1628 words)

	Chapter 11: GETHING\GETHINGS\GETHIN (from 1743)
		The name Gething and its related forms such as Gethin(s), Gittin(g)(s), Guto, Gethen(s) and Gethan, is derived from the Welsh word cethin, meaning dark, swarthy or fierce, or, ugly or hideous, via Gutyn.
		As late 1881 the distribution of Gething(s) and Gethen individuals still showed a heavy bias towards mid-Wales and the Welsh Marches.
		Our Gething line are known to have been in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, in the 1740s, at which time William married Ann(e) Harper.
	www.phancocks.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /familyhistory/bentley/bentley11.htm (654 words)

	The Outer Rim: The Review - Paper Cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One can move about in a society as a curiosity and, hopefully, bring the Ekumen's message of interplanatial peace and co-operation to a new world.
		Genly Ai soon realizes that the Ekumen, in all of its wisdom, never considered a world so far away from all other inhabitable worlds that the thought of beings living off of its own planet -- out in the "Void" as they name space -- is ludicrous.
		The story is told alternately by Genly Ai and his guide on Gethen, Therem Harth, and, interspersed between the chapters of their accounts of their adventures, are parables from the Gethenian mythos.
	outer-rim.lweb.net /review/48papercuts2.html (947 words)

	Laura Gethen Smith - Free Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
		Laura Gethen Smith - Free Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
		Browse Gethen Smith's body of work: Discover indepth information
		Apply for your own Premiere Artist Portfolio and receive extra features, exposure and marketing opportunities.
	www.absolutearts.com /portfolio/s/sironi (99 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin, Mass Market Paperback, REISSUE
		Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune - and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula Award later, these words remain true.
		For Gethen is inhabited by a society with a rich, ancient culture full of strange beauty and deadly intrigue - a society of people who are both male and female in one, and neither.
		The Left Hand of Darkness explores the themes of sexual identity, incest, xenophobia, fidelity, and betrayal in a tale of an Earth ambassador, Genly Ai, who is sent to the planet of Gethen, whose inhabitants are androgynous.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=9780441478125&z=y (890 words)

	Notice of Eternal Cloud Cover for Northern Michigan - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum
		I'm not but I'm going to try to invoke the 'luck of the Irish' and get you some sunshine soon, gethen.
		Watch out for the cops on I-75 up there.
		Hey, Gethen, when you get some clear sky could you send a patch west?
	www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?t=8733 (2192 words)

	Laura Gethen Smith - Home.
		Welcome to the website of the British abstract and landscape artist Laura Gethen Smith.
		The work on show includes collage, drawing, work on paper and painting.
		I hope you will enjoy your visit to my web site.
	www.laura-gethen-smith.com (262 words)

	M P GETHEN MECHANICAL PROCESS PIPEWORK LIMITED credit report - Wednesday 13th September 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		M P GETHEN MECHANICAL PROCESS PIPEWORK LIMITED credit report - Wednesday 13th September 2006
		Company Details - M P GETHEN MECHANICAL PROCESS PIPEWORK LIMITED
		Change in situation or address of Registered Office.
	www.ukdata.com /numbers/04171160.html (96 words)

	Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness
		What kind of s/f mirror does Gethen become for the earth bound reader?
		How does Le Guin develop a fictional vehicle
		Entangles the success of Genly Ai's mission on Gethen with the relationship he forms with Therem Harth Estraven
	dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu /WarnerTeach/E192/leguin/leguin.html (529 words)

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