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Tales from Earthsea

Tales from Earthsea
Tales from Earthsea First.jpg
First edition iridescent cover
Author Ursula K. Le Guin
Cover artist Kelly Nelson (design)
Marion Wood Kolisch (photo)
Country United States
Language English
Series Earthsea
Genre Fantasy stories and essays
Published 2001 (Harcourt Brace & Company)
Media type Print (hardcover)
Pages 296
ISBN
OCLC 45813870
[Fic] 21
LC Class PZ7.L5215 Tal 2001
Preceded by Tehanu
Followed by The Other Wind

Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It accompanies five novels (1968 to 2001) set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea.

Tales from Earthsea won the annual Endeavour Award, for the best book by a writer from the Pacific Northwest, and Locus Award, Best Collection, for speculative fiction collections. Two of the five collected stories were previously published, "Darkrose and Diamond" (1999) and "Dragonfly" (1998), and both had been nominated for annual awards.

"Darkrose and Diamond" was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1999.
"Dragonfly" was first published in Legends, October 1998.

All of the stories reinterpret the world of Earthsea. In the original trilogy, Earthsea society in general and the practice of magic in particular are dominated by men. Women can only be witches, which is the despised lowest rank of the magical world, as expressed in the proverb "Weak as women's magic, wicked as women's magic".

The Tales from Earthsea stories try to redress the balance. It is disclosed that the Roke school had been established by women who were later excluded from it; and that Ogion, Ged's beloved tutor and mentor, had learned his magic from a master who had learned from an "unauthorised" woman mage. Other stories feature strong and assertive women who in various ways challenge male dominance.


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