Earthsea
| Name: | The Earthsea Cycle | |
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| Creator: | Ursula Le Guin | |
| Date(s): | 1964–2001 | |
| Medium: | books | |
| Country of Origin: | United States | |
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Earthsea is a fantasy universe created by sf&f author Ursula Le Guin. Le Guin's works set in the Earthsea universe are A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1972), The Farthest Shore (1973), Tehanu (1990), The Other Wind (2001), and several shorter works collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975) & Tales from Earthsea (2001). The series has been adapted for television by the Sci Fi channel as Legend of Earthsea (2004); Studio Ghibli made an anime film, Gedo Senki: Tales from Earthsea (2006).
Fandom
The earliest online fanfiction dates from around 2001, with prominent early authors including Victoria P and Daegaer. Victoria P's frequently recommended 'The Naming of Names', a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brought the fandom to a wider audience, while Daegaer's 'The Dark of the Moon' and 'The Eaten One' opened up the possibilities for femslash within The Tombs of Atuan.
As of 2009, there are over eighty fan-written stories and poems online from over fifty authors. Several well-known authors from larger fandoms have written in the universe, including Altariel, Ellen Fremedon, Elynross and Minerva McTabby. The majority of fanfiction is suitable for a general audience, with very little sexually explicit material. Ged and Tenar are by far the most popular characters with the most popular pairing being the canonical Ged/Tenar, but various other m/f, m/m and f/f pairings have also been written. Most fanfiction is based on A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu; very little online fanfiction based on the adaptations exists, in English at least.
There is no fandom-specific archive; most fiction is archived at Fanfiction.net, Skyehawke and Yuletide. earthsea_fic was created in 2004 and is moderated by Espresso Addict; it accepts fanfiction and poetry of all genres. The Earthsea fanfiction masterlist was compiled in 2009 by Espresso Addict. Reccers include Beth H, Espresso Addict, The RCK and Victoria P.
Online fanart is relatively rare. Dapple Hack has collected art posted at DeviantArt into a gallery.
Discussion is most active at The Ekumen on Yahoo! Groups, but also goes on at atuan and leguin on LiveJournal. Fansites include The Isolate Tower by Espresso Addict and To Light a Candle by Rizwan Virk, which also contains fanart.
