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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.
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Hugo Award Winners since 2016, but I haven't read any of these books. Proceed with caution! (Year, author, title) 2016 Jemisin. The Fifth Season 2017 Jemisin. The Obelisk Gate 2018 Jemisin. The Stone Sky (I sense a great author here! Also known for The Broken Earth series, of which some of the ab...
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Hugo Awards, 2016
"With every new work, Jemisin's ability to build worlds and break hearts only grows." ―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground." ―Library Journal (starred review)
"[The Fifth Season is] an ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end of the novel. ... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy." ―The Guardian
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