I read this book a long time ago as part of a still ongoing study of gender in Science Fiction literature. Specifically "strange" gender. The Left Hand of Darkness certainly contained one of the more well designed systems of gender.
It is a good choice for anyone doing gender-studies into Science Fiction writing.
Another book that I read at almost the same time I believe was "Half-way Human" that was about a society that included three fixed genders, male, female, and neuter - where the neuters became the servants to the others. Also a brilliant book, but I do not recall the author.
I'm glad to see that someone mentioned this project!
I have been using the GNU CommonC++ Libraries myself in some multithreaded internet apps that use both TCP and UDP for communication. For my first test project I implmented an extremely simple HTTP-like service and it ran beautifully.
The code is broken up into classes, well documented, and they're always developing it and making bug fixes. I was impressed the first time that I found it and would recommend it highly to anyone who wants to do both Networking I/O and Threading with one library.
Better, the CommonC++ Libraries also compile for Windows environments, meaning that they're pretty close to being extremely cross-platform already.
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I read this book a long time ago as part of a still ongoing study of gender in Science Fiction literature. Specifically "strange" gender. The Left Hand of Darkness certainly contained one of the more well designed systems of gender.
It is a good choice for anyone doing gender-studies into Science Fiction writing.
Another book that I read at almost the same time I believe was "Half-way Human" that was about a society that included three fixed genders, male, female, and neuter - where the neuters became the servants to the others. Also a brilliant book, but I do not recall the author.
Amerist.
I'm glad to see that someone mentioned this project!
I have been using the GNU CommonC++ Libraries myself in some multithreaded internet apps that use both TCP and UDP for communication. For my first test project I implmented an extremely simple HTTP-like service and it ran beautifully.
The code is broken up into classes, well documented, and they're always developing it and making bug fixes. I was impressed the first time that I found it and would recommend it highly to anyone who wants to do both Networking I/O and Threading with one library.
Better, the CommonC++ Libraries also compile for Windows environments, meaning that they're pretty close to being extremely cross-platform already.
Amerist.