N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, 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 New York Times, and you can find her online at nkjemisin.com.
"[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 ... Jemisin's work itself is
part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and
fantasy."--Guardian on The Fifth Season
"[A] powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and heartbreak."
--SFF World on The Fifth Season
"[How] can something as large and complex as this story exist in
her head, and how does she manage to tell it to me so beautifully?
I can't stand how much I love The Broken Earth trilogy so
far.... Absolutely dazzling."--B&N Reviews on The Obelisk
Gate
"A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground."--Library Journal (starred
review) on The Fifth Season
"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."--NPR Books on The Fifth Season
"Beyond the meticulous pacing, the thorough character work, and the
staggering ambition and revelations of the narration, Jemisin is
telling a story of our present, our failures, our actions in the
face of repeated trauma, our responses to the heat and pressure of
our times. Her accomplishment in this series is tremendous. It
pole-vaults over the expectations I had for what epic fantasy
should be and stands in magnificent testimony to what it
could be."--NPR on The Obelisk Gate
"Brilliant characters, vivid world, and pacing . . . .The
Obelisk Gate is an incredibly ambitious and important
novel."--The Verge on The Obelisk Gate
"Exceptional."--Library Journal (starred review) on The Obelisk
Gate
"Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected, and technically virtuosic,
The Fifth Season is a tour-de-force. I felt every shock--and
the book is packed with them--in my marrow. It's no exaggeration to
say that Jemisin expands the range of what great fantasy can
be."--Brian Staveley, author of The Emperor's Blades
"Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth
Season
"Jemisin builds off of the strong foundation laid in The Fifth
Season ... an interesting new series."
--Booklist on The Obelisk Gate
"Jemisin is a tremendously talented writer on every level and she's
at the top of her game here. I love books that beat me up and take
my lunch money, and this one left me bruised, breathless, and
desperate for the final volume."--Rose Fox, senior reviews editor
Publishers Weekly, (PW Staff Picks: The Best Books We Read in 2016)
on The Obelisk Gate
"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly
imaginative and narratively bold."--Entertainment Weekly
"Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right
now.... [She] is a master at what she does." --RT Book Reviews (Top
Pick!) on The Fifth Season
"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) on The Fifth Season
"One of the most celebrated new voices in epic
fantasy."--Salon.com
"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."--Lightspeed on The Fifth
Season
"Stunning.... Jemisin's most accomplished series yet."--RT Book
Reviews on The Obelisk Gate
"Stunning, again."--Kirkus (starred review) on The Obelisk Gate
"This is an intense, exciting novel, where survival is always on
the line, set in a fascinating, original and dangerous world with
an intriguing mystery at the heart of it. I can't wait to see what
happens in the next book!"--Martha Wells on The Fifth Season
"With every new work, Jemisin's ability to build worlds and break
hearts only grows."--Kirkus (starred review)
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