The first three books in the cycle—A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan ... “Infinite are the arguments of mages,” Le Guin writes, in what could be Roke’s school motto.

That’s the lesson that prideful young wizard Ged—also known as Sparrowhawk—must learn while training at the island of Roke’s school of wizardry in the 1968 debut installment of Ursula K ...

A new adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's landmark young adult fantasy series Earthsea will be developed by A24 (Midsommar, High Life, Eighth Grade) and Jennifer Fox (Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler ...

Harry Potter and Hogwarts, for instance, are nearly unimaginable without the wizard school of Roke, where Le Guin first sent young Ged Sparrowhawk in 1968’s A Wizard of Earthsea.Like the Boy Who ...

So at first glance, A Wizard of Earthsea would appear to be one of her less explosive works. Over forty years since it’s publication, the Earthsea story sounds a bit like Fantasy Heroism 101. An ...

Participants in Jackson's District Library's 2010 "Big Read" will embark on an adventure of fantasy through the eyes of a young boy with wizard-like powers. Sound familiar? Members of the library ...

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 ...