The Stone Sky - (Broken Earth) by N K Jemisin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Includes excerpt book by author from The hundred thousand kingdoms and The shadow by Lila Bowen.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed <i>NYT</i> bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.</b> <p/>The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. <p/>Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. <p/>For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>The Stone Sky</i> ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good. She's that good.--<i><b>John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal</b></i><br><br>[A]n 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.--<i><b>Guardian on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>[N. K. Jemisin's] books have abstracted real-life race issues in a way that serves to magnify the truth.--<i><b>Washington Post</b></i><br><br>[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene] with the Broken Earth.--<i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br><br>A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground.--<i><b>Library Journal (Starred review) on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory.--<i><b>RT Book Reviews (five stars)</b></i><br><br>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.--<i><b>NPR Books on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>Brilliant...gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists.--<i><b>Washington Post</b></i><br><br>Incredible, wildly original . . . [<i>The Stone Sky </i>is] blowing me away.--<i><b>The Verge</b></i><br><br>Intricate and extraordinary.--<i><b>New York Times on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful.--<i><b>Kirkus (starred review)</b></i><br><br>Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.--<i><b>Entertainment Weekly</b></i><br><br>Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right now.... [She] is a master at what she does. --<i><b>RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy.--<i><b>Salon.com</b></i><br><br>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.--<i><b>Lightspeed on The Fifth Season</b></i><br><br>The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take part.--<i><b>NPR Books</b></i><br><br>The powerful conclusion to the Broken Earth trilogy will please the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed settings, and complex characters.--<i><b>Library Journal</b></i><br><br>Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home.--<i><b>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>N. K. Jemisin</b> is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for <i>The Fifth Season</i>, which was also a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, <i>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms</i>, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the <i>New York Times</i>, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.
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