The Farthest Shore

You can explore complex themes of philosophy, ethics, the balance of nature, and the psychological burden of power, and you can still have dragons soaring over the ocean.

The later books in the Earthsea cycle, like The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, push this meditation on power, aging, and the finality of death even further.

But that first book is the door.

Exactly.

We were geeks before we chic, and I'm your co-host, Stephen Taylor.

And if I'm incoherent in this episode, it's because all the pod magic has been gone from the world.

And I'm your co-host, Tom Grant, and...

I lost the words.

Anyway.

All right.

So, um, before we get down to business, um, what soundtrack would you choose for this episode? If you could pick a song or, or what have you that we can't afford.

So I picked a somber music of contemporary, sorry.

So what else? I don't know.

Well, as we said, our next episode is going to plunge into the third book in the series, The Farthest Shore.

And until then, stay, stay geeky.

[laughs] Stay geeky.