N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.
"The Stone Sky ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most
important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good.
She's that good."--John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal on The Stone
Sky
"[A] powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak."
--SFF World on The Fifth Season
"[A]n ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a
protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till
toward the end... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but
definite change in sci-fi and fantasy."--Guardian on The Fifth
Season
"[A]ngrily, beautifully apocalyptic."--B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Blog
"[N. K. Jemisin's] books have abstracted real-life race issues in a
way that serves to magnify the truth."--Washington Post on The
Stone Sky
"[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene]
with the Broken Earth."--The New York Times on The Stone Sky
"A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground."--Library Journal (Starred
review) on The Fifth Season
"A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in
recent memory."--RT Book Reviews (five stars) on The Stone Sky
"Astounding... Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional
core that not only carries the story through its complicated
setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to
come."--NPR Books on The Fifth Season
"Brilliant...gorgeous writing and unexpected plot
twists."--Washington Post
"Get this book. Get it now. Read it. Then read the whole trilogy
over again."--Light speed Magazine on The Stone Sky
"Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected, and technically virtuosic, The
Fifth Season is a tour-de-force. I felt every shock--and the book
is packed with them--in my marrow. It's no exaggeration to say that
Jemisin expands the range of what great fantasy can be."--Brian
Staveley, author of The Emperor's Blades
"Incredible, wildly original . . . [The Stone Sky is] blowing me
away."--The Verge on The Stone Sky
"Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth
Season
"It's honestly difficult to describe just how good N. K. Jemisin's
Broken Earth trilogy is . . . if you don't read this trilogy,
you'll regret it."--Syfy Wire on The Stone Sky
"Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're
simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and
powerful."--Kirkus (starred review) on The Stone Sky
"Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right
now.... [She] is a master at what she does." --RT Book Reviews (Top
Pick!) on The Fifth Season
"Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect
backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters
fighting to save a doomed world."--Publishers Weekly (Starred
Review) on The Fifth Season
"N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is the best new speculative
fiction I've read in a long time . . . Intricate [and]
captivating."--Literary Hub on The Stone Sky
"One of the most celebrated new voices in epic
fantasy."--Salon.com
"Reshapes the face of epic fantasy."--B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog
on The Stone Sky
"Stunning and well constructed ... a book that imbues itself with
deeper meaning the more it unfolds and reveals itself, and by the
end, I saw everything in a new light. I knew Jemisin was talented,
being a huge fan of her Inheritance and Dreamblood books, but here
she employs heretofore unseen skills."--Lightspeed on The Fifth
Season
"The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy
is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take
part."--NPR Books on The Stone Sky
"The powerful conclusion to the "Broken Earth" trilogy will please
the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed
settings, and complex characters."--Library Journal on The Stone
Sky
"Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding
worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused,
grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants
of their shattered home."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on
The Stone Sky
"Who knew a post-apocalyptic fanatsy could forge a new path over
well-trodden ground while still packing an emotional
punch?"--Parade on The Stone Sky
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