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I am once again awestruck by the beauty, wisdom, humor, grace, and rough-hewn truth that emanates from every page I’ve read of the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle. She was a monumental gift to the world, and we would all do well to pay attention to what the stories in this cycle have to tell us about life, death, power, nature, truth, and, above all else, magic.
The stories here are uniformly good. I especially liked The Finder, about the founding of the wizard school, and Dragonfly, which I suppose is a bridge between Tehanu and the last book, which I have not yet read. For me, while uniformly good, none of them stood out as being excellent or riveting. And I doubt whether they would hold much interest for anyone who had not read the other Earthsea books.
I often feel this way about stories that are adjacent to existing worlds/stories, whether it's Sand ...more
I often feel this way about stories that are adjacent to existing worlds/stories, whether it's Sand ...more
Most excellent set of shorter stories from Earthsea.
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