human beings. The God-Kings were the mortal rulers of the Kargad Lands. The dynasty began with "priest-kings", but over the years they promoted themselves, until finally they declared themselves to be gods. The last God-King is overthrown in a civil war by Thol of Hur-at-Hur and flees to Atuan, where he is killed by a priest-eunuch. The Earthsea canon Short stories Seven short stories appear in two collections of Le Guin's work (and some have been reissued elsewhere). Two seminal stories were originally published in 1964 and were collected in The Wind's Twelve Quarters (Harper & Row, 1975). Five much later stories were collected in Tales from Earthsea (Harcourt, 2001), where three were original. Two later stories were collected in The Books of Earthsea (Saga Press, 2018). "The Word of Unbinding", Fantastic Stories of Imagination, January 1964 "The Rule of Names", Fantastic Stories of Imagination, April 1964 "Dragonfly", Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy, Tor Books, 1998 "Darkrose and Diamond", The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct-Nov 1999 "The Bones of the Earth" (2001), original to Tales from Earthsea "The Finder" (2001), original to Tales from Earthsea "On The High Marsh" (2001), original to Tales from Earthsea "The Daughter of Odren" (2014) ebook, first printed in The Books of Earthsea (2018) "Firelight", "The Paris Review", Summer 2018 Tales from Earthsea also includes about thirty pages of fictional reference material titled "A Description of Earthsea" (2001) and catalogued as short fiction by ISFDB. Novels A Wizard of Earthsea (Parnassus Press, 1968) The Tombs of Atuan (Atheneum Books, 1971) The Farthest Shore (Atheneum Books, 1972) Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (Atheneum Books, 1990) The Other Wind (Harcourt, 2001) Chronology The internal or fictitious historical order of Earthsea stories differs from their publication order. There is some uncertainty in this "historical" list, but the five novels were published in historical order and the birth of Ged preceded all but the first four entries. "The Word of Unbinding" "The Finder" "Darkrose and Diamond" "The Rule of Names" "The Bones of the Earth" A Wizard of Earthsea The Tombs of Atuan "On the High Marsh" The Farthest Shore Tehanu "Dragonfly" "The Daughter of Odren" The Other Wind "Firelight" "A Description of Earthsea", the last part of Tales from Earthsea, is fictitious reference material rather than narrative. The two 1964 stories are not entirely consistent with the others and they have