![]() ![]() Le Guin maintained an interest in encouraging writers and sharing her art. I consider her short story Semley’s Necklace – first published in 1964 and later included in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters – to be the finest of its kind in fantasy writing, its crystalline prose equal to Semley’s tragic fate. Style is something Le Guin seemed to be able to master effortlessly and consistently. ![]() In 1973, she made a humorous critique of the problems faced by writers trying to make their worlds fantastical and strange in From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, encouraging and emphasising the importance of appropriate style. Le Guin was fiercely protective and supportive of other authors. It’s heavy, but significant and humanly realistic reading for a teenager. In the Earthsea series, we are introduced to the complex responsibilities of becoming an adult, and asked to consider the values of life and the nature of death. Rowling “ripped me off” in her Harry Potter series, but felt that Rowling should have been “ more gracious about her predecessors”. ![]() Regarding the story of Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea, Le Guin didn’t say that J.K. If this sounds familiar, you’re not the first to note it. ![]()
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