> Le Guin's commentary poses the thorny question of what a novelist can do when she realizes twenty years later that she disagrees with herself, especially when her former position had been quoted "with cries of joy" (1987, 7) by adverse critics. Well, she can write a public recantation, as Le Guin did, but it was too late to revise the novel itself. Le Guin found an ingenious two-pronged literary solution to this problem of having one's past remain alive in one's present. Her first response was to reprint "Winter's King" (1975), another story that set on the planet of Gethen that actually …