And "Winter's King" does have a clear chronological relationship to The Left Hand of Darkness, though I don't remember off the top of my head which comes first.
"Winter's King" has to take place after The Left Hand of Darkness because Gethen has by then an established relationship with the Ekumen, but since neither story references the other, I have to come to this conclusion from internal evidence.
Other than that? Who knows!
It's true. I think it's one of the reasons Le Guin was ambivalent about calling it a "cycle," since that implied some kind of structure which the shared setting totally does not possess.
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Date: 2021-03-12 02:19 am (UTC)"Winter's King" has to take place after The Left Hand of Darkness because Gethen has by then an established relationship with the Ekumen, but since neither story references the other, I have to come to this conclusion from internal evidence.
Other than that? Who knows!
It's true. I think it's one of the reasons Le Guin was ambivalent about calling it a "cycle," since that implied some kind of structure which the shared setting totally does not possess.