The Left Hand of Darkness: According to Variety, Sandra Schulberg's Phobos Entertainment has picked up all media rights to Ursula K. Le Guin's sci-fi novel "The Left Hand of Darkness."

First published in 1969, "The Left Hand of Darkness" is set on Winter, a lost planet whose inhabitants defy standard gender roles and even physically change genders. Story follows a human emissary who must bridge a cultural gulf to fulfill his mission to bring the planet back into the galactic fold.

Schulberg plans to exploit the property as both a feature and a vidgame.