Ursula K Le Guin is, quite simply, one of the greatest fantasists of our age, as well as a distinguished writer of science fiction, realist fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Among her many honours are a National Book Award, the World Fantasy Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Award, a Pushcart Prize and the Harold D Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Although she has published over eighty short stories, two collections of essays, ten books for children, several volumes of poetry and sixteen novels, what she remains most famous for are her tales of the world of Earthsea. A fictional realm originally created by Le Guin for her short story The Word of Unbinding, published in 1964, Earthsea became the setting for a further six books, beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea, first published in 1968, and continuing with The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind. Iconic, original and deeply moving, the Earthsea novels have enthralled generations of fans – many of whom, it is worth saying, would not normally have been drawn to fantasy in the first place. Le Guin’s world also inspired two TV films, one of which is perhaps best forgotten while the other is a little known animated gem. The woman and the story behind one of the best loved worlds in fantasy are both almost as interesting as anything which occurred in the Earthsea novels.
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I'm a fantasy writer and on this site you'll not only find samples of my work but also articles concerning folklore, myth and legend, reviews of movies, books and graphic novels and much else besides (including the occasional short story - you lucky people!).
Click on the image below if you would like to buy a copy of my novel, 'White Planet', a science-fiction/fantasy set on the ice world of Rygarth, whose snows hide ancient secrets and restless evil. Go to the ‘Novels’ section of this website for more information and to read free samples of this and my other longer fiction. Excerpts from my short fiction appear in the 'Short Stories' section of this website.
The 'Blogroll' below contains links to lots of other fantasy and sci-fi websites and the 'Writer Links' section of this site will take you to the websites of other authors whose work I admire.
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White Planet
The first volume of 'The Ice World Chronicles'
Blogroll
- Abattoir
- Abomination
- Albedo One
- Allegory
- Aphelion
- Black Static
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Cygnus
- Dark Discoveries
- Dark Moon Books
- Dark Tales
- Encounters Magazine
- Fantasy Magazine
- Interzone
- Locus
- Prime Books
- Realms of Fantasy
- Strange Horizons
- The Black Library
- The Edge
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- The Realm Beyond
- Weird Tales
- #Manga - wp.me/p21O69-hS 1 week ago
- #MayDay - wp.me/p21O69-ia 3 weeks ago
- #WorldsWithoutEnd - wp.me/p21O69-hN 1 month ago
- #Angels - wp.me/p21O69-hH 1 month ago
- #JamesPBlaylock - wp.me/p21O69-hB 2 months ago
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- Beware the Loa!
- The Long Defeat
- 2012 in review
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- Reavers of the Seven Seas
- Carnivàle
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- The Great Harry Potter Controversy
- The Golden Age of Kids’ TV
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- By the Power of Grayskull!
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Blogs I Follow
- Edwardhu111's Blog
- Winson Chiu (The Manga Creator)
- Ultimate Spoiler Attack
- Flying over a forest
- Judith Shaw - Life on the Edge
- Amber Lotus Publishing
- Faerie♥Kat's Faerie♥Korner
- Scattering the light
- The Keya Quests blog
- The Always Hungry Bookworm
- SCC Library Reads
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- Books and Adventures
- Hellar Reviews
- Raging Biblio-holism
- Nada Faris | Blog
- Zendagi Migzara !
- Trees-Per-Second
- melanie bourgeois, illustrator and conceptartist
- Books On Trial
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- Laura Bruno's Blog
- efrona's blog
- Ozark Pagan Mamma
- The Dancing Hare
- The Raven and The Oak
- stormyviews
- The Rowdy Goddess
- SCOD Public Blog
- Ravemore's Notes
- Life hands us the lemons, now where's the vodka?
- Summer Thunder
- A Witchy Life
- Temet Nosce
- PNC-Minnesota Bureau
- Fanny Fae
- Marlene Dotterer
- ChibiSketches
- Robwired
- Daniel Delgado's Blog
- litbeetle
- Bloggity, Bloggity, Blog
- Zcreed
- skylatron
- Reviews and Ramblings
- Life, the Universe, and Everything
- The Write Edge
- shelflifepodcast.wordpress.com
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