Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Lessons From Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin’s 'A Wizard of Earthsea' may be a classic, but does anyone still care? Writers and creators of fantasy, neglect this book at your peril

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Alec Worley
Jul 24, 2024
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‘Earthsea: The First Four Books’, Puffin, 2016, cover art by Matt Jones

How did we forget A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)? Everyone agrees Ursula K. Le Guin’s rites-of-passage fantasy is a classic: profound, lyrical, exquisitely written, a masterclass in the evocation of magic and revered by uber-hip authors from Margaret Atwood to that guy who wrote Sandman…

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