Earthsea

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Roxanne Jones: I don't think Harry Potter could have existed without Earthsea. There's a quote from Le Guin where she's like, I think Rowling could have been better about citing her her ancestors. She and so yeah, there's a lot in this guardian piece from her about how the she felt she herself felt like quoting a woman pretending to think like a man. All of a sudden we're seeing Earthsea from the point of view of the powerless.

Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.

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