Occasionally, there's books that I know I will savor within the first 50 pages, and this is one of them. A great science fiction book and surely one of the best books about gender and politics, especially from a scifi perspective, but there was another thing all together I loved about this book. Le Guin is really good at making Gethen seem lived and real, in a way that pleasantly surprised me and hooked me immediately. I swear sometimes I felt cold reading this because I could feel the coldness emanating from the book. Of course, read the book if you like sci-fi, gender, all the things you've heard about it, but it personally stands out to me for how concrete it felt.