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 ...

The first full book in the series, A Wizard of Earthsea, centers on a young mage; the second, The Tombs of Atuan, centers on a girl who is taken from her homeland to become a high priestess.