Earthsea is pretty cool. Ursula K Le Guin grew up in Asia. Her father had this copy of the Tao Te Ching, something Le Guin later rendered in English. She worke

Earthsea is pretty cool. Ursula K Le Guin grew up in Asia. Her father had this copy of the Tao Te Ching, something Le Guin later rendered in English. She worked with it with the ear of a poet, spent decades working on it, throughout her writing career. Earthsea superficially resembles a Western, Tolkien-esque high fantasy, but its thematic core is rooted in the Tao Te Ching and similar streams.