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Out of curiosity, which would you say is her best work? (Left Hand isn't my favorite, either. I'd probably give that to The Dispossessed).
by msbarnett 8y ago
Out of curiosity, which would you say is her best work?
(Left Hand isn't my favorite, either. I'd probably give that to The Dispossessed).
- moultano 8y agoI'd second The Dispossessed.
- ngvrnd 8y agoI liked "Always Coming Home". And "The Lathe of Heaven" made a big impression when I was a kid.
- berbec 8y agoTehanu is my favorite.
- jhbadger 8y agoI really think "A Wizard of Earthsea” is underrated. It really was one of the first examples of fantasy that was set in a society not based on Western ones.
- r00fus 8y agoThe Lathe of Heaven [1]. My best example of a book written by one author in the /style/ of another author (in this case, her friend Philip K Dick). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven
- tildedave 8y agoMy personal favorite is _The Tombs of Atuan_ - it introduces a new character, creates an entire world around her, then pulls all the assumptions beneath the world apart.
- tanbog 8y agoI second this. I think it was my first encounter with a genre book that totally "subverted" everything I had learned fantasy narratives should be.
- zwieback 8y agoI also think the Dispossessed.
- domdib 8y agoThrough childhood association, my favourite is the first three Earthsea books, but probably her greatest writing is in her post-apocalyptic semi-utopia Always Coming Home, and maybe her most moving writing is in the 'story suite' Five Ways to Forgiveness (originally Four Ways...) on societies dealing with racism and slavery. Needless to say, her short stories are marvellous too.