N.K. Jemisin’s books are some of the most original and eye-opening fantasies being published today, and these books have a particularly vibrant take on survival. Jemisin’s world goes through cycles of catastrophes that upend humanity each time. The stress of the continual shifts leads to an oppressed people known as orogenes — mutated, or maybe just magical — who can use their powers to alter the planet, for better or worse. Jemisin investigates the alienation of her characters, and explores how society reacts when constantly bombarded by trauma.
Part 1. The Fifth Season
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4.3 rating based on 290,832 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0316229296
ISBN-13: 9780316229296
Goodreads: 34314712
Author(s): Publisher: Orbit
Published: 8/4/2015
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 familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
Part 2. The Obelisk Gate
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4.3 rating based on 174,550 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0356508366
ISBN-13: 9780356508368
Goodreads: 50364839
Author(s): Publisher: Orbit
Published: 1//2020
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.
It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.
The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
Part 2. The Obelisk Gate
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Goodreads Reviews
4.3 rating based on 174,550 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0356508366
ISBN-13: 9780356508368
Goodreads: 50364839
Author(s): Publisher: Orbit
Published: 1//2020
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring – madman, world-crusher, savior – has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.
It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.
The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.
Part 3. The Stone Sky
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.
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4.3 rating based on 148,049 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0356508684
ISBN-13: 9780356508689
Goodreads: 50409728
Author(s): Publisher: Orbit
Published: 1//2020
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.
Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.
For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.
The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.
