When The Left Hand of Darkness first appeared in 1969, the original jacket copy read, "Once in a long while a whole new world is created for us. Such worlds are Middle Earth, Dune--and such a world is Winter." Twenty-five years and a Hugo and Nebula A…
Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on... Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each…