You are looking at The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin. These are both in fair condition. The copyrights are 1974 & 1976. The pages are yellow and the covers are pretty worn. Crease marks along the spines and the edges are chipped and bent. Both books have some writing on the first pages. They are decent reading copies.
Here is the synopsis from the back cover of The Dispossessed: "A Tale of Two Worlds - In her most ambitious and prophetic novel to date, Ursula K. LeGuin has produced a stunning tour de force - the spell-binding story of Shevek, a brilliant physicist who single-handedly attempts to re-unite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust. Anarres, Shevek's homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization; Urras, the mother planet, is a world very similar to Earth, with its warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Shevek risks everything in a courageous visit to Urras - to learn, to teach, to share. But his gift becomes a threat...and in the profound conflict which ensues, Shevek must re-examine his philosophy of life...."
Here is the synopsis from the first page of The Left Hand of Darkness: "From field notes of Ong Tot Oppong, Investigator, of the first Ekumenical landing party of Gethen/Winter, Cycle 93 E.Y. 1448 - Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is non-existent here. The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? Yet you cannot think of a Gethenian as "it". They are not neuters. They are potentials; during each sexual cycle they may develop in either direction for the duration of that cycle. No physiological habit is established, and the mother of several children may be the father of several more. There is no division of humanity into strong and weak halves, protected/protective. One is respected and judged only as a human being. You cannot cast a Gethenian in the role of Man or Woman, while adopting towards "min" a corresponding role dependent on your expectations of the interactions between persons of the same or opposite sex. It is an appalling experience for a Terran..."
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