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In Favour Of by karanguni for voksen
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
10 Jun 2014
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'Of course the capital,' Ashe said, his brow furrowing somewhat. 'You didn't think that Therem would stay here forever?'
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24 Jun 2026
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Other Kinds of Men by karanguni
Fandoms: Ursula K Le Guin - the Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness
04 Jul 2010
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Therem Harth rem ir Estraven must have tried, at some point, to seek another way.
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24 Jun 2026
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Goblin Mode by primeideal for primitivemorals
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
26 May 2026
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Therem lives, and goes forth into another exile.
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24 Jun 2026
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Therem Harth tells no love stories; yet there are other stories, some of which are Estraven's to tell.
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08 Jun 2026
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The Other Lives by centrifugepolitics
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
25 Dec 2018
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I had been born in the bitter cold during the month of Thern to a traitor and a suicide. They had been neither of those things at the time, but a person's shadow can stretch through time as much as it can through space. We may walk in the direction of the sun not realizing that our shadow grows longer and longer behind us as darkness fast approaches.
I couldn’t discard my mother’s legacy but I could continue it. But not in Ehrenrang or in the Domain of Estre or, indeed, on Gethen at all. I would join the Ekumen and go to the stars.
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08 Jun 2026
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empty hands by clachnaben for DreamerInSilico
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
17 Dec 2022
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I had not told anyone in Estre I was coming. I hadn’t known how, or what I would say. In Gethen there is no fear of being turned away, left standing at the gate. There will always be a welcome in a hearth, for a person with a shadow.
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08 Jun 2026
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No Longer Sole Representative by Luzula for maybetwice
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
15 Dec 2021
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I had colleagues again, and after three years, what a change it was: all the everyday details of Gethen, which had become familiar to me over the years, I saw as new again through their eyes.
But they, too, were unfamiliar to me in several ways: I had not had time to get to know them well during our journey to Gethen, since we had been in deep sleep all that time. And how strange to speak Hainish again! It was not a difficult language, having for thousands of years had its complexities worn down by use as a lingua franca—but it was neither Karhidish nor my native Earth language which I used in my own mind. It brought me back to my years training with the Ekumen on Hain.
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06 Jun 2026
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Vignettes across worlds by Roadsterguy for adspexi
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
02 Dec 2021
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A few small vignettes on the initial meeting and increasing connection between Genly and Therem. I greatly appreciated the prompt about the evolution of their relationship, and wanted to play with some of the things that struck me on my recent umpteenth re-reading of the book.
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06 Jun 2026
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the end and the way by inkatesbush
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
05 Mar 2018
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At the end of his life, retired envoy of the Ekumen Genly Ai shares a part of his story on Gethen that he never told.
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04 Jun 2026
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Praise then Darkness by GloriaMundi for Jain
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
20 Dec 2013
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"My advice, Therem, is only this: will you let the story shape you, brother? Or will you shape a new tale?"
Therem's luck turns, and turns again.
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04 Jun 2026
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Where Did the Future Go? Parts Unknown by natsinator for Gammarad
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
02 Dec 2023
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“Are you glad to be going home?” Somehow, on the ship, it was easier to ask these things.
She laughed. “Home? I’m leaving it. I’ve spent more time on Gethen than I have on Terra. I feel like I’ve forgotten my own native language. Nusuth, I suppose. I’ll be back more than two hundred years after I left— things change enough in that time that I’ll have to relearn ways of speaking anyway, if I don’t want to sound like what I am.”
“And what are you?”
“A stranger in a strange land,” Genry said. She switched to the Terran language, the one she had taught me to speak.
Though if I was to go to Terra, I should start trying to think of Genly as what he was.
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04 Jun 2026
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Uncautionary Tales by Roadsterguy for adspexi
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
20 Dec 2023
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04 Jun 2026
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A Piece of the Continent by Epigone for Traykor
Fandoms: Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
20 Dec 2010
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Where Genly Ai went, after Winter. [Written for Yuletide 2010.]
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30 May 2026
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Report by Genly Ai, on music in Karhide by meetmeinmyden
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
27 May 2026
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Genly describes the types of Karhidish music he recorded for the Ekumenical archives, and how he shared some Terran music with Estraven, breaking yet another unspoken rule of being an Envoy
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29 May 2026
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Estraven's journal by meetmeinmyden
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
22 May 2026
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Sorve wants to hear about Estraven and the ice again and again, and in the telling Genly shares more than he realises.
Then Sorve gives Genly a gift.
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29 May 2026
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The Right Hand of Light (The Reverse the Polarities Remix) by Un_finished for clachnaben
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
18 Dec 2024
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What if things had gone just a little differently in the Sinoth Valley?
Being an alternate ending to The Left Hand of Darkness.
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28 May 2026
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driving out the frost by venndaai for rem-ir (Macdicilla)
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
01 Jan 2024
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They had shot him with the foray-guns meant for me, and his last thoughts had reached out to me across the night snow-field- /Please, Therem, go,/ and then he had fallen into darkness and I had left him, skiing into the Orgoreyn forest, into the pitiless shadowless light of my unprecedented failure and my grief and my despair.
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28 May 2026
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As One Thing Becomes Another by vir_adahlenn
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin
24 Nov 2022
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A conversation between Genly and Estraven while out on the Ice. From both perspectives. I don't know.
Hello to the someone out there reading fanfiction of a book from 1969. I wrote this for you.
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24 May 2026
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The Right Hand of Light by Kyra for Balder12
Fandoms: Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
20 Dec 2012
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The Left Hand of Darkness. What Genly did not tell.
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24 May 2026
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in the shadow of the glacier by Serenity_Ribbon for idanit
Fandoms: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
17 Dec 2021
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Forty years before Genly Ai, three investigators from worlds across the Ekumen explore Gethen.
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24 May 2026