The Fifth Season
The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:28th Jul '16
£9.99
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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 withThe 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
Jemisin brilliantly illustrates the belief that, yes, imaginative world-building is a vital element of fantasy - but also that every character is a world unto herself * NPR *
Fantasy novels often provide a degree of escapism: a good thing, for any reader who has something worth escaping. Too often, though, that escape comes through a fictional world that erases rather than solves the more complex problems of our own... In Jemisin's work, nature is not unchangeable or inevitable. The Fifth Season invites us to imagine a dismantling of the earth in both the literal and the metaphorical sense, and suggests the possibility of a richer and more fundamental escape * The New York Times *
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
- Short-listed for Nebula Awards in the Novel category 2016 (UK)
- Short-listed for Hugo Award Best Novel category 2016 (UK)
- Short-listed for The Kitschies Red Tentacle 2016 (UK)
- Short-listed for World Fantasy Awards 2016 (UK)
ISBN: 9780356508191
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 38mm
Weight: 349g
512 pages