Pollex Christi 1976 album, "Third Reich and Roll", did with 1960s top-40 music. Two editions were released of 400 copies each, the first issue being hand numbered. Pollex Christi Pollex Christi ("The Thumb of Christ") was the first of Ralph America's limited edition CDs by the Residents. It is thought to be a solo studio project by the band's keyboardist and main composer Hardy Fox. The 20-minute synthesizer piece is made up entirely of quoted material, mostly works by famous German composers, including Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Orff's Carmina Burana, with a few American television show tunes added in. The piece was
The Left Hand of Darkness which human love, and a number of other human qualities, can be depicted in a fresh context". Darko Suvin, one of the first academics to study science fiction, wrote that "Left Hand" was the "most memorable novel of the year", and Charlotte Spivack regards the book as having established Le Guin's status as a major science-fiction writer. In 1987 Harold Bloom described "The Left Hand of Darkness" as Le Guin's "finest work to date", and argued that critics have generally undervalued it. Bloom followed this up by listing the book in his "The Western Canon" (1994) as one of the