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Contact: Amy Armstrong
Director of University Relations
Tel: 830.792.7405
Email: anarmstrong@schreiner.edu
  For Immediate Release
November 3, 2008

Monday Night Fiction to Feature ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’
 

Schreiner University’s Monday Night Fiction series will discuss “The Left Hand of Darkness” by Ursula K. LeGuin at 7 p.m., November 17, in the Scarle-Philips Room in the William Logan Library on the Schreiner campus. Dr. David Mulry, associate professor of English at Schreiner, will be the discussion leader.

LeGuin is a prolific and award-winning science fiction writer, probably best known for her Earthsea series. “The Left Hand of Darkness” is one of several books set in her Hainish universe. The protagonist of is Genly Ai, who is working to bring the world of Gethen, who are androgynes for all but two days a month, into the Ekumen, a galactic federation. The book received a Nebula Award in 1969 and a Hugo in 1970, the top literary awards for science fiction writing.

This literary event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.

  Book cover:  "The Left Hand of Darkness"


For more information on this or any other Schreiner University humanities event, contact Martha York at the Schreiner University Center for Innovative Learning (830) 792-7352.
 

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