A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
One of my formative memories of reading.
My mother read the Earthsea trilogy to my older brothers and me at bedtime. We had the three books in one volume. I reread it when I was in high school a dozen years after that and it was completely falling apart by then.
Some day I'll be completely falling apart too, I suppose, but for now I'm happy to wait to share this with my daughters. It has been hard for them to get past Ged being an orphan though.
There's a theme of the power of names in this book. Abstraction, abstraction, abstraction... the three most important things in computer science, too.
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