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One of the best fantasy short story collections I've ever read. Originally, when I realized this wasn't the next book in the series but a short story collection, I was disappointed. But the short stories gave such a great backdrop to what has gone on before and what is going to go on, that I feel like it simultaneously improved the previous books and made me anticipate the next in the series even more. I particularly liked On the High Marsh. The story really had a sense of place was the kind of
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Nominally the fifth book out of six in the Earthsea series, this collection of five short stories (one or two of them long enough to be properly called novellas) is meant to give us some insights into the history of Earthsea and the school on Roke, as well as providing a bridge between
Tehanu
(book four) and
The Other Wind
(book six) in the form of the last story of the book, Dragonfly.
It strikes me as funny to place a collection of only marginally related short stories in the middle of ...more
It strikes me as funny to place a collection of only marginally related short stories in the middle of ...more
loved this book. this really redeemed the direction the series has been going, i think. i love Le Guin as a writer, but the last couple of books, though they had interesting story elements, really disappointed me in the execution and came off quite boring. reading this book, which is a collection of short stories, it reminded me again of Jack Vance, and how both Vance and Le Guin--masters at fantasy--both hit their stride with short stories. an interesting thing to note about this book is that,
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