she remains best known for The Left Hand of Darkness, about a planet whose inhabitants have no fixed gender identity, and for the six-book fantasy series that began with A Wizard of Earthsea.

On Tuesday night, the Sci Fi Channel aired its final installment of Legend of Earthsea, the miniseries based—loosely, as it turns out—on my Earthsea books. The books, A Wizard of Earthsea and ...

Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, I couldn’t get past the first ... and where a stone wall of ages had stood there now was a Master Doorkeeper who bade me, "Enter." Here, finally, was a world ...

First the wizard Ged becomes ... And going hand in hand with the revelations about death and the nature of magic, these books turn the whole of Earthsea into a brilliant narrative about ...

But in the magic-infused archipelago of Earthsea, the wrong mistake has the potential to unleash an ancient and terrible evil upon the world. That’s the lesson that prideful young wizard Ged ...

In development for television, the Earthsea TV show replaces previous plans for a series of movies from rightsholder Fox, who optioned the series in 2018. In A Wizard of Earthsea, first published ...

Le Guin would go on to win the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy awards (each more than once) later in her career, but it was the seminal book A Wizard of Earthsea that broke down barriers and ...