Earthsea again

[ellenkushner]

How deeply we cared. How quickly we forget. Oh, well, it's not original to our fast-paced hi-tech culture: even the Elizabethans had their Nine Days' Wonder . . . .

Back in December, I posted an homage to Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ellen_kushner/3748.html

(yes, yes, any month now I am going to take all the good advice you've been giving me and learn to do LJ links and like that...! Right now I just . . . can't . . . .)

because the Earthsea TV series was about to debut. It was on the air. It was abysmal. Depressing. A travesty.

Many pixels were spilt on this, and a kindly reader sent me the URL for Le Guin's own response from her website.

But Dear Ursula also published an even nastier piece on Slate.com, called "A Whitewashed Earthsea: How the Sci Fi Channel wrecked my books."

Lots of people saw it, but in case you're not one of them, it's now linked at Le Guin's website, along with a few other lively and acerbic comments, at:

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Index-EarthseaMiniseries.html

(I feel a particular sense of responsibility to those Sound & Spirit listeners who are being sent here from the program's "What's New?" page, and who may never have encountered LiveJournal before. Welcome!)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Hold my hand.

[houseguest-tm.livejournal.com]

You know I will. You'll love the way you don't have to type those pesky html tags, it's like a magic thing.