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Sullivan
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I recently read A Wizard of Earthsea for the first time and I LOVED it. I had to draw Ged, The lightless cities of the dead, and Ged's confrontation with the dragon of Pendor. I also wrote some of my feelings on the book:


Sullivan
@Sullivan
Young Ged/Duny with his goatherding flute
Ogion and Ged (before all the unpleasantness).
Ogion the Silent. I want Ogion to have sort of a Stephen Mckinley-Henderson vibe, and to look more like a shepherd than a wizard.
Ged, the wizard (with bonus Hoeg)
made with @nex3's grid generator

Ged and the dragon of Pendor


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LeGuin is one of the best writers ever. If you get a chance you should read her short story collections, particularly "The Compass Rose," which I think are even stronger than Earthsea and her other longer novels.

I have tremendous affection and respect for Le Guin's work in a heap of cases; her sci-fi is wonderful and exactly what I want out of science fiction, which is to say a lot less 'fun adventures with laser swords or sandworms' and much more 'looking at humanity through a variety of fascinating lenses'.

One of her stories in particular really got me; I can't remember which, but I think it was somewhere in the Hainish Cycle. There's a concept of a whole family unit that's sort of split into night and day duties, and they all share some time (generally a big meal and some surrounding period) to stay cohesive despite the fact that you'd have significant duty/role overlap between the night and day side. I wish I could remember the title.

I also have some special affection for Paradises Lost. We love a generation-ship in this house, and idealizing the journey as a group of people only ever destined to -be- on a journey is a turn I otherwise wouldn't have considered in that milieu.

Anyway, yeah. Imperative: read a lot of Le Guin. Her work is intense and beautiful and this scintillating view of humanity that feels impossible to replace or replicate.

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