The Other Wind
- 285
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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Our view
“The Other Wind” is a thoughtful, bittersweet farewell to Earthsea, carried by calm prose and by characters who each get a fitting close. Ursula K. Le Guin uses the last novel of the cycle to look at arranged marriage, at how differently the archipelago’s cultures understand the world, and at the way women act together and how men see it. It relies on what the four earlier novels built, so it is best read last.
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About the book
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It is the fifth and final novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea. The novel won the annual World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and it was runner-up for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, among other nominations.
Reading order · Earthsea series
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 200 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 8.1 comes out. A further +0.10 comes from the small bonus for major awards.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 200 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Other Wind?
It has 285 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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