"All of Ursula Le Guin's strengths are abundantly present. Meredith Tax, The Nation (28 January 2002) As far as gender goes, these books seem to me a true symbolic picture of where we are now, with no untainted source of male power, no mature authoritative leadership of any kind, caught midway in our evolution as social beings." "All the patterns, clues, and oppositions set up over thirty years in five other books, come to fruition and are worked out in The Other Wind. This is not what 70-year-old writers of genre fantasy are supposed to do, but then, there aren't many writers around like Le Guin." "In her new novel, however, she reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself. “The Earthsea saga, begun in 1968 as a young adults' series, has evolved into one of Le Guin's, and modern science fiction's, signature achievements.” The magic of Earthsea is primal the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream." Real mythmaking, done by a master of the craft. "Le Guin understands magic and dragons better than anyone, and her writing only gets better with each new book.
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