Books by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season introduces an alternate, far-future Earth where a single, Pangea-like continent is wracked with natural disasters. The ‘fifth season’ of the title is what the planet’s inhabitants call recurring periods of catastrophic climate change; we witness the start of one in the opening sequence, wherein a powerful ‘orogene’—a human born with the power to manipulate the Earth’s crust, causing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and rifts—tears the land in two. In this, and its sequels The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin offers a rich fusion of science fiction and fantasy, so these books will suit you if you liked the theological and supernatural elements of Dune, like the Bene Gesserit. Notably, all three books in this ‘Broken Earth’ trilogy won Hugo Awards. The New York Times called it “the 21st-century fantasy trilogy that changed the game.”

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