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Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)
The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.
Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world.
N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.
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"Beyond the meticulous pacing, the thorough character work, and the staggering ambition and revelations of the narration, Jemisin is telling a story of our present, our failures, our actions in the face of repeated trauma, our responses to the heat and pressure of our times. Her accomplishment in this series is tremendous. It pole-vaults over the expectations I had for what epic fantasy should be and stands in magnificent testimony to what it could be."
— NPR on The Obelisk Gate
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“Robin Miles continues as narrator, and the large cast of characters allows her to draw on her vast store of accents. Her narration is intimate and engaged, and she enriches the complicated relationships…Miles draws out the emotions—sometimes volatile, sometimes seething beneath the surface—as the complexities of this postapocalyptic world unfold. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“In this compelling, challenging, and utterly gripping work that combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, and horror…Jemisin immerses readers in a complex and intricate world of warring powers, tangled morals, and twisting motivations.”
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Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.
— Entertainment Weekly -
Jemisin builds off of the strong foundation laid in The Fifth Season ... an interesting new series.
— Booklist on The Obelisk Gate -
Exceptional.
— Library Journal (starred review) on The Obelisk Gate -
Stunning, again.
— Kirkus (starred review) on The Obelisk Gate -
[How] can something as large and complex as this story exist in her head, and how does she manage to tell it to me so beautifully? I can't stand how much I love The Broken Earth trilogy so far.... Absolutely dazzling.
— B&N Reviews on The Obelisk Gate -
Stunning.... Jemisin's most accomplished series yet.
— RT Book Reviews on The Obelisk Gate -
Jemisin is a tremendously talented writer on every level and she's at the top of her game here. I love books that beat me up and take my lunch money, and this one left me bruised, breathless, and desperate for the final volume.
— Rose Fox, senior reviews editor Publishers Weekly, (PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2016) on The Obelisk Gate -
Brilliant characters, vivid world, and pacing . . . .The Obelisk Gate is an incredibly ambitious and important novel.
— The Verge on The Obelisk Gate -
Intricate and extraordinary.
— New York Times on The Fifth Season -
[The Fifth Season is] an 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 -
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 -
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 -
A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground.
— Library Journal (starred review) on The Fifth Season -
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 -
[A] powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak.
— SFF World on The Fifth Season -
This is an intense, exciting novel, where survival is always on the line, set in a fascinating, original and dangerous world with an intriguing mystery at the heart of it. I can't wait to see what happens in the next book!
— Martha Wells on The Fifth Season -
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 -
One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy.
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With every new work, Jemisin's ability to build worlds and break hearts only grows.
— Kirkus (starred review) -
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
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One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2016
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Finalist for the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
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A Publishers Weekly Pick
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Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Nominated for the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel
The Obelisk Gate Listener Reviews
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About N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin is an American author who has won three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel. Her work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice awards. She is a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and she has been an instructor for the Clarion and Clarion West writing workshops.
About Robin Miles
Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic’s Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors’ unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.