The Fifth Season (Audio)
by:
N.K. Jemisin (author)
ISBN:
9781478900832 (1478900830)
Publish date: 2015
Publisher: Orbit
Edition language: English
Series: The Broken Earth (#1)
This book was recommended to me on Twitter. I’d replied to a thread about SciFi and said I thought I didn’t like the genre until I read some SciFi by women, and cited Margaret Atwood, Ursula K LeGuin and Octavia Butler as writers whose work I’d really enjoyed. One person suggested I try this trilogy...
"The Fifth Season" is a remarkable book on the evil of slavery the ruthlessness of empires, the hunger for freedom and the persistence of hope. "The Fifth Season" deserves all the praise it has received. It uses non-linear but easy to follow storytelling to explore heartbreak...
It took about 50 pages for the author's voice to grow on me. Once the story got rolling and I understood the vocabulary more clearly it was a captivating read.We get a very nice range and scope of perspectives: a gay, disenchanted master orogene and the student assigned to make a baby with him; a se...
Author: N. K. Jemisin Narrator: Robin Miles Time: 15:27 | Pages: 500 Um...wow! I'm still trying to wrap my head around this one. This novel was so beautifully complex without becoming convoluted. I'm still trying to make sense of the fact that the three women we follow in this story is all the...
"Back to the personal. Need to keep things grounded, ha ha"in "The Fifth Season" by J. K. JemisinSurely most decent SF is unique, each story is different from other stories, each writer is different from each other writer? Most of the speculative/dystopian/ science fiction I've read has been written...
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