![]() I won’t sugarcoat it: Earthsea’s worldbuilding is more than a little thin. ![]() The other Earthsea books were written much later, so we’ll save them for another day. That’s A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore, for those keeping track at home. But how good is the worldbuilding, and what can storytellers learn from it? We find out by dissecting the first three books and seeing how they hold up. These tales have it all: wizards, boats, and wizards in boats. * It’s the former category we’re interested in today, which also happens to be Le Guin’s debut series, the Earthsea books. Le Guin, an author who penned everything from high fantasy to children’s stories about cats with wings. Set your sails by a mage wind and gather round the werelight: it’s time for this worldbuilding series to take a look at the prolific and influential Ursula K. ![]()
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