It was a great joy to read it now, as I really find it a worthy conclusion of the cycle and a very good read in its own rights. Between then and now I’ve read a few of the Hainish novels, Malafrena, and some other one-shots and short stories, even her poems, but I somehow missed The Other Wind. To my astonishment I realised I’ve never read The Other Wind before! Why? It was published in 2001, Polish translation in 2003, after my last re-read of the Earthsea. I was happy to re-read the final book before the Witch Week – originally I wanted to re-read the entire cycle, but I only found time to read Wizard and this. Piotrek: I love Le Guin and I consider her to be one of the giants of the genre, quite close to Tolkien on my personal Olympus. Saga Press (Gollancz in UK and I have this version) published the ultimate illustrated edition, with great art by Charles Vess. Prószyński i S-ka published one of the beautiful editions of the Earthsea, with one weak point – lack of illustrations. If not, you will not like it, we promise… This is a short novel, if you liked the previous ones, read it. Warning – there will be spoilers, there’s no point in avoiding that. Inspired beyond our contribution to the comment section there, we decided to post this special two-shot review. One of the high points of the recent Witch Week was a discussion on Ursula Le Guin’s The Other Wind, the final Earthsea book.
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