![]() She is a writer of a great sociological passion and strong convictions, and these show quite clearly here, especially towards the end of the 'Earthsea' series. Her s-f works delight in designing and describing what can be called alternative societal set-ups, sometimes simply different from ours for no apparent reason and often firmly grounded and justified by alternations in biology or/and geography. Le Guin is not strictly a fantasy writer, in fact she has written much more of sci-fi than fantasy. Somehow forgotten in the post-movie renewed furore over the Lord of the Rings, to those in the know, the 'Earthsea' cycle is up there in the fantasy Pantheon, with Tolkien and the 'Once and Future King', high above all the Belgariads and Shannaras. For somebody not acquainted with fantasy it wouldn't be a bad place to start sampling. ![]() ![]() If you read fantasy at all but don't know it, go and read it at once. Summary: Short but very rich novel that tells the first instalment of the story of Ged Sparrowhawk, a Mage and a dragon lord from Earthsea. ![]()
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