The Fifth Season
by:
N.K. Jemisin (author)
Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel Book 1 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy A New York Times Notable Book Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards The inaugural Wired.com book club pick This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It...
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Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Book 1 in the double Hugo-Award-winning trilogy
A New York Times Notable Book
Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards
The inaugural Wired.com book club pick
This is the way the world ends...for the last time.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world, spewing ash that blots out the sun.
It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter.
It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.
This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
The Broken Earth trilogy is complete - beginning with The Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate (Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel) and concluding with The Stone Sky (Shortlisted for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel).
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B017KZSV3K
Publish date: 2015-11-19
Publisher: Hatchett Audio
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...
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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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