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Alexander Semenyuk's avatar

Love her books.

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Caitriana NicNeacail's avatar

The Earthsea books were among my favourites as a child, and I still enjoy them today. This has reminded me that I should try and get a hold of the Hainish books, which have been on my radar for a while but which I've not yet got to.

I love literary as well as speculative fiction, and often feel that these genre boundaries are rather artificial! Like, if a book is packaged a certain way, with a certain style of cover design, it's shelved in sci-fi/fantasy/horror, but if it's packaged differently it becomes "literary". I'd encourage everyone who's hesitant about trying "genre" fiction to give it a go with some of these classic authors!

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