Thread: New Leaf January 2019 Discussion • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Old 01-20-2019, 08:04 PM   #70
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I in turn know nothing about Game of Thrones so I can’t add anything to this. It would be really good if a few others could join in here, or has everyone else stopped reading?
I've been steering clear of this months discussion so far. I read left hand many many years ago and have absolutely no desire to re-read it. I am not a Le Guin fan.

Martin and his Song of Ice and Fire world including Game of Thrones was undoubtedly influenced by the War of the Roses. I have seen speculation that her work (but not necessarily this particular book) influenced both Game of Thrones and the movie Avatar. I'm not aware that these suggestions have been confirmed by either Martin or Cameron, but then again I have not researched the matter. There may well be such links. However, I am also conscious that the themes concerned are hardly rare ones to either literature or history, and even the names used are hardly definitive.
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