Ursula K. Le Guin

Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5)

taylor miles hopkins

Fun exploration of the world! One more to go.

Gavin

My favourite, but you can't just jump in here; it gets its power from reprise and reprisal.

These five superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea to just before The Other Wind, and feature some of Le Guin's most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea's history and people. No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical collection.

Tales from Earthsea

Contains five short stories about Earthsea, with many crossovers from the previous books. 

Fatih Arslan

Fraser Simons

A little less even because of the jumping around in time to follow all the stories. While some were OK, a couple stood out, like Dragonfly, and made the collection a good and substantive addition. I liked interrogating some of the assumptions and discovering Roke in a different context. Tehanu is a hard thing to follow. I’m not sure anything after it would have been 5 stars. But it is still very good.

Eleanor Luhar

This is the fifth installation of The Earthsea Cycle.In this book is a collection of short stories from different eras and locations within Earthsea. There are tons of links to other tales in this series throughout this book, including character crossovers. There's even a whole section on describing Earthsea at the end, giving a real in-depth history of the land and it's cultures.

I am getting a little bored with this series, but I think it's just because of how the writing has a rather archaic feel. This writing really does help create the universe, but it's just not my thing. I appreciate how effective it is in creating the world of Earthsea and immersing you in the book, though.

My favourite tale in this book is the final one, where a woman is allowed entrance into Roke School. I'm interested in seeing if equality returns to Earthsea - women with power are looked down upon, whereas sorcerers, wizards and especially mages are respected for their power.

I will stil finish reading this series, despite not loving it as much as I maybe should. 3 stars.

Boothby

Gabe Cortez

Bartek

Vittorio Bonzi

Nate

Scott Robertson

Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history, and magic of the place.

The tales of this book, as Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her introduction, explore or extend the world established by her first four Earthsea novels. Yet each stands on its own. "The Finder," a novella set a few hundred years before A Wizard of Earthsea, presents a dark and troubled Archipelago and shows how some of its customs and institutions came to be. "The Bones of the Earth" features the wizards who taught the wizard who first taught Ged and demonstrates how humility, if great enough, can contend with an earthquake. "Darkrose and Diamond" is a delightful story of young courtship showing that wizards sometimes pursue alternative careers. "On the High Marsh" tells of the love of power-and of the power of love. "Dragonfly" shows how a determined woman can break the glass ceiling of male magedom. Concluding with an account of Earthsea's history, people, languages, literature, and magic, this collection also features a map of Earthsea. This ebook includes a sample chapter of THE OTHER WIND.

Tales from Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 5)

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