Question

Topics like thalassogens and Euclid’s parallel postulate are discussed in an Isaac Asimov essay collection titled for one of these objects “of the Electron.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this object that titles a novel primarily set in Karhide and Orgoreyn, whose inhabitants adhere to the shifgrethor code of conduct and experience a phase called kemmer according to the lunar month.
ANSWER: left hand [prompt on hand; accept The Left Hand of Darkness; accept The Left Hand of the Electron]
[10e] Chapters devoted to the customs and mythology of the hermaphroditic Gethenians are included throughout The Left Hand of Darkness, a novel by this sci-fi author of the Hainish and Earthsea cycles.
ANSWER: Ursula K. Le Guin [or Ursula Kroeber Le Guin; or Ursula Kroeber]
[10h] The Left Hand of Darkness contrasts two Gethenian religions: the older praises ignorance and practices “foretelling,” while the younger believes their namesake Messianic prophet gained omniscience during a foretelling incident. Name either.
ANSWER: Handdara OR Yomeshta [prompt on Meshe]
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