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Three-time Hugo Award-winner N. K. Jemisin’s first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.
Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A Black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo Award-nominated short story “The City Born Great”, a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:
The Inheritance Trilogy:
The Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of GodsThe Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)
Dreamblood Duology:
The Killing MoonThe Shadowed SunThe Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)
The Broken Earth:
The Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk GateThe Stone Sky
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Customers praise this speculative fiction collection for its wide variety of stories told from different perspectives, with one review noting its complete narrative arcs. Moreover, the book features brilliant imagination in speculative fiction, thoughtful social commentary, and compelling characters. Additionally, customers appreciate the writing quality, with one describing it as a fabulous introduction to Jemisin’s work.
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