![]() ![]() There is a grim majesty to Jemisin’s storytelling throughout the novel, and an extraordinary artistry to how she unwinds its interlocking narratives and explores the systems that constrain its characters. ![]() Magic users known as orogenes can quell the Stillness’ deadly quakes, but that talent is rare, and those who have it are under constant threat of violence. The Fifth Season at first appears to weave together the stories of three people, but late in the book Jemisin reveals that she has merely shattered her protagonist’s story into three. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. She has also won a Nebula Award, two Locus Awards, and a number of other honors. In 2018, she became the first author to win three Hugos in a row for her Broken Earthnovels. There, apocalypses are so regular and so devastating that they more than earn their place on the calendar. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the worlds sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. The Fifth Season, the first entry in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, takes place in the Stillness, a counterintuitively named continent beset by cataclysm. Jemisin as an author on the ascent, it was The Fifth Season -and its history-making Hugo Award win in 2016, when Jemisin became the first Black author to take home Best Novel-that launched her into science fiction and fantasy’s stratosphere. If her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, established N.K. ![]()
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