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The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441011254
ISBN: 044101125X
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 30, 2003
Publisher: Ace
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Studio: Ace
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Editorial Review:
The greatest fantasies of the 20th century are J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. Regrettably, the Earthsea Cycle has not received the fame and sales of Tolkien's trilogy. Fortunately, new Earthsea books have appeared in the 21st century, and they are as powerful, beautiful, and imaginative as the first four novels. The fifth novel and sixth book of the Earthsea Cycle is The Other Wind.
The sorcerer Alder has the power of mending, but it may have become the power of destruction: every night he dreams of the wall between the land of the living and the land of the dead, and the wall is being dismantled. If the wall is breached, the dead will invade Earthsea. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea, sends Alder to King Lebannen. Now Alder and the king must join with a burned woman, a wizard of forbidden lore, and a being who is woman and dragon both, in an impossible quest to save Earthsea.
Ursula K. Le Guin has received the National Book Award, five Nebula and five Hugo Awards, and the Newbery Award, among many other honors. The Other Wind lives up to expectations for one of the greatest fantasy cycles. --Cynthia Ward
THE NEW EARTHSEA NOVEL--NOW IN MASS MARKET
World Fantasy Award Winner--Best Novel
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not my cup of tea
While I really loved the original Earthsea trilogy, both as a kid and as an adult, this book (and "Tehanu") were a bit disappointing. I had a hard time deciding on whether to give this book 3 or 4 stars and in the end went with 3. I can't pick out anything technically wrong with the book, but it failed to draw me in. Despite being relatively short, it took me months to finish this book. Nothing much was really happening, so I didn't feel at all compelled to see what happened (or rather, didn't happen) ... Read More
Rating: - Lovely language - barren story
Le Guin has remade the world of Earthsea into 'Land of the Suicides.'
In this story, she mythologizes about the nature of life and death. However, it seems she has NOT thought through the implications of what she's created (a mistake Segoy would never make).
In this tale, human life is an (apparently) endless series of reincarnations, with (apparently) NO reasons for whether you come back as a slug or a dragonlord. In such an existence, there is no reason for people to resist or ... Read More
Rating:  - It's just sad that this is the last book...
Quite simply put, the Earthsea books are among my favorite stories.
This final (unless, as we're hoping, another one comes out...) book in the Earthsea series furthers the more poetic style LeGuin shifted to in Tehanu. The book concerns itself with a number of important philosophical themes but remains a full-fledged fantasy novel. Readers will learn more about the true nature of the land of the dead, of the dragons, of the origin and balance of magic, etc.
While it's sad to realize ... Read More
Rating: - Another overrated and dreary sequel to an otherwise wonderful trilogy
Although I'm a big fan of the first three books of the Earthsea series, I think that this latest book (as was the case with Tehanu), was both overrated and underwhelming. It weighed in at just over 200 pages, which is somewhat anemic, and the book plods along at a slow pace ... and is unfortunately somewhat dreary and predictable.
IMHO, this series should have remained the trilogy that the author first envisioned it as ... books 4 and 5 are just anemic tack-on stories that lack the magesty and wonder ... Read More
Rating:  - Slow with an Incomprehensible ending
Let me preface this with my Earthsea background. I read the first 3 books when I was young and loved them. Then did them again on audio a couple years ago and enjoyed the 1st and 3rd books but thought the 2nd one was slow. Then I read -Techanu- and thought it was more like an interlude with a plot added in at the end for good measure and seemed like an interlude. -Stories of Earthsea- was barely passable and now this -The Other Wind- left me with a final bad taste for a series I loved for a long time.
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