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Backstory pick
Ursula Le Guin was a pioneering sci-fi/Fantasy pick author in the late 20th century, and this is the first four books in her iconic Fantasy pick series, which imagines a world made up of islands and with a magic system related to speaking the true names of things. It's really interesting to see how her writing style and subject matter changes over the course of the four books, as she wrote them spread out. Darby
Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over Nature pick. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the Archmage Sparrowhawk that he helps the High Priestess Tenar escape the labyrinth of darkness.
But over the years, Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death. Will he too succumb, or can he hold them back?