“Intricate and extraordinary.” – New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016This is the way the world ends…for the last time. A season of endings has begun. 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 … 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.
For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:
The Inheritance Trilogy
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Broken Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods
The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)
Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)
The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)
Dreamblood Duology
The Killing Moon
The Shadowed Sun
The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gatemore
A monument of great speculative fiction. Absolutely breathtaking. I guarantee, you’ve never read anything like it. The first book in a series that won three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel (so it’s not just me talking out of some orifice other than my mouth, other people think it’s that good too). I find it almost impossible to describe the book in any ways other than the already existing online blurbs without spoiling at least some parts of the book.
Amazing world, great story.
dont remembe rthis one
N.K. Jemisin has a tremendously interesting mind. This whole series is fantastic–as is The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms trilogy. It took me a while to get into the book (it’s the first in the trilogy). And then I had to go back and re-read probably the first 30-50 pages because it’s just so unlike anything else I’ve ever read. It’s the kind of book that has to teach you how to read it because it is its own thing; it’s not just some generic genre book. But wow, once you get into it, it is just fantastic. The whole series is wonderful.
Incredibly original and very well written. Very unlike other fantasy I’ve read in the best possible way. Cannot recommend this book highly enough!
One of the most stunning and original books I have read in a long time. Anyone who loves science fiction and fantasy should read Jemisin’s trilogy.
One part dystopian, one part fantasy, and one part sci-fi, The Fifth Season is the first in a three-volume story that is like nothing I’ve ever read before. Jemisin has infused new life into the fantasy genre by giving me everything I never knew I wanted.
There’s a good reason this author won “Best Novel” three years in a row.
NK Jemisin makes her worlds and stories …..different. A bot dark and sometimes hopeless but the human spirit lives and lives to fight again and again….good stories but not your typical ebbs and flows though the characters life and struggles…good read…
An outstanding treatment of a dystopian future with unique narrative viewpoints and wonderful – and in many cases, despicable – character development.
I have never read a book that is more immersive and thoughtfully created than The Fifth Season and the rest of the Broken Earth series. N. K. Jemisin has to be the most original and real author I have had the privilege of reading! The series left me completely satisfied yet yearning for more. It was bittersweet to have this journey but I highly, highly recommend it to anyone that wants to read and learn something authentic about human nature.
There’s a reason it won a Hugo. As did it’s sequel. And the last book in the series is nominated. It’s that good… I’d give it six stars if I could…
On an alternate Earth wracked with seismic activity, special mutants can control earthquakes – either reducing their impact or making them much worse. This is the story of three extraordinary women with a unique link who share this mutant power, and how they come together to witness the coming of a fifth season, where the world as they know it ends in fire. The storytelling is masterful, keeps you engaged through to the end, and wraps up tidily leaving just enough of a cliffhanger and meat for the rest of the series.
If you like Hannu Rajaniemi’s Quantum Thief books, or Anne Leckey’s Ancillary Justice books, you will love N.K. Jemison’s Fifth Season.
N.K. Jemisin impresses me greatly for her writing skills and also her insight into people. I enjoyed this book a great deal.
This is the first of a trilogy, all of which I recommend. The Fifth Season is incredibly well written, original, and different from many scifi and fantasy books out there. It is fascinating, realistic, and stays with you. I find this trilogy a compelling read – I wasn’t as thrilled with her other series, but this is outstanding.
This is science fiction at it’s best. What a complex world Jemison creates. I am amazed by the complex world, the language, the new types of beings and all reads as if you were there. She describes this world as if she is writing from France since you have not been there yet. I love the main character which is seen from three different perspectives. I hated to finish this book.
This book describes a world like no other I have read. The world is riven by horrific tectonic events that temporarily change the world’s climate, create famines, etc., (known as “fifth seasons”), and that can only be damped down by a group of people known as “Orogenes”. Said people are taken for granted, disregarded, disrespected, oppressed. Until one day, one of them creates a major rift in the planet’s single continent that creates a fifth season that will potentially go on for thousands of years, effectively wiping out all life on the planet. How do the planet’s inhabitants cope with the aftermath, and what happens next? An incredibly engrossing read.
The author did an amazing job of world building. Her characters were people I cared about.
A very rich universe, strong, deep characters and species. No wasted words.
An excellent blend of science fiction and fantasy, Jemisin tackles issues of race and society in a brilliant guise. Read this if you are looking for unique and beautiful characters set against the back drop of racism and magic.
I’m not really sure what to say about this book. If your an epic fantasy lover looking for something original and diverse, this is the book for you.