Terrific stories from an absolute mistress, all set in Earthsea, all more or less adresssing the various aspects of wizardry and gender suggested by preceding volume Tehanu. I particularly liked the first one, about the founding of Roke, and the last one (bar the sketch of Earthsea) about a young woman trying to enter the school on Roke in the aftermath of Ged's departure back to Gont on the dragon. But the other stories are very good, too, the moving (heh) story of Ogion and the earthquake, a bittersweet love story and the tale of a broken wizard. Wonderful.