![]() ![]() Unrelated to the novels, just in the same universe. ![]() “Stone Hunger,” a novelette set in the Stillness. She’ll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. ![]() The last thing I need is yet another series in which to get behind. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. The second reason is that as THE FIFTH SEASON is the first book in a series that may not be science fiction, Im anxiously awaiting book two. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. ![]() Jemisin as an author on the ascent, it was The Fifth Seasonand its history-making Hugo Award win in 2016, when. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze - the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s bedrock for a thousand years - collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman’s vengeance. If her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, established N.K. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Three terrible things happen in a single day. ![]()
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