![]() Over the span of those 18 years, feminism had “grown and flourished.” And during those 18 years, Le Guin had a sense that there was something missing from her writing that was “paralyz storytelling ability.” She realized at some point that it was the absence of women at the center of her stories. It took Le Guin 18 years to come back to the fourth book and finish it. She had no idea where the story was going or why the main character was doing what she was doing. She wrote the first three over the span of six years, and “confidently” started writing the fourth…and couldn’t do it. In the Introduction, she explains why it took her so long to write all six books of the Earthsea series. ![]() ![]() I read AWoE as part of The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, which includes an Introduction by Le Guin that put a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. ![]()
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