Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, this book is set in a far flung corner of the universe on the planet Winter; which is much like Earth except (as the name suggests) it is always extremely cold and also the human inhabitants are genderless.

An envoy from the Ekumen is sent to convince them to join their planetary collective but finds it a struggle to survive in not only the hostile environment but the complicated and political society he encounters.

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