While on a mission to the planet Gethen, a world whose inhabitants can change their gender, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him, in a new edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel. Reissue. This science fiction novel is the story of Winter, an Earth-like planet with two major differences. Conditions are semi-arctic even at the warmest time of the year, and the inhabitants are all of the same sex. The book has won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Introduction A Parade in Erhenrang 1(21) The Place Inside the Blizzard 22(5) The Mad King 27(16) The Nineteenth Day 43(4) The Domestication of Hunch 47(25) One Way into Orgoreyn 72(17) The Question of Sex 89(9) Another Way into Orgoreyn 98(26) Estraven the Traitor 124(6) Conversations in Mishnory 130(19) Soliloquies in Mishnory 149(13) On Time and Darkness 162(3) Down on the Farm 165(19) The Escape 184(16) To the Ice 200(21) Between Drumner and Dremegole 221(16) An Orgota Creation Myth 237(3) On the Ice 240(23) Homecoming 263(22) A Fool's Errand 285(17) The Gethenian Calendar and Clock 302