The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD

Name: The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD
Rating: 4.609929084777832 (141 reviews)

N. K. Jemisin

Aug 2015 · Broken Earth Trilogy Book 1 · Hachette UK

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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy

***One of Time Magazine's top 100 fantasy books of all time***
***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards***
***A New York Times Notable Book and 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's sole continent, 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.

'Astounding' NPR
'Amazing' Ann Leckie
'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal
'Powerful' io9
'Elegiac, complex, and intriguing' Publishers Weekly
'Intricate and extraordinary' New York Times
'Brilliant' Washington Post

The Broken Earth trilogy is complete - beginning with The Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel) and concluding with The Stone Sky (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award).

Also by N. K. Jemisin:
The Inheritance trilogy
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Broken Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods

The Dreamblood Duology
The Killing Moon
The Shadowed Sun

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141 reviews

nicktopus

February 15, 2017

Really enjoyed it and loved the idea of geowizardry and how it all plays out. Only downside for me was apart from the protagonist the other characters were pretty 1 dimensional - but hey this is sci-fi fantasy

8 people found this review helpful

Callum Wilson

May 22, 2019

A good read that had some cool twists and turns and certainly kept me interested. Somewhere between Sci-fi and earth science, which in itself is pretty unique.

Latonya Wigginton

July 8, 2019

I have read the whole series and love them so much. One of my now all time favorite speculative/fantasy fiction books. It might be a little bit of difficult start for some readers due to the writing style but it is well worth it , a touching story about humanity and motherhood.

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About the author

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, for her Broken Earth trilogy. She is a MacArthur 2020 Genius Grant Fellow. Her work has won the Nebula and Locus Awards, and the first book in her current Great Cities series, The City We Became, is a New York Times bestseller. Among other critical work, she was formerly the speculative book reviewer at the New York Times. In her spare time she's a gamer and gardener, responsible for saving the world from Ozymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his destructive sidekick Magpie. Essays and fiction excerpts are available at nkjemisin.com.

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