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| − | '''Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy (also, ''The Fifth Season'' Trilogy).''' Omnibus. New York City: Orbit US, 2018. London, UK: Orbit, 2019 | + | '''Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy (also, ''The Fifth Season'' Trilogy).''' Omnibus. New York City: Orbit US, 2018. London, UK: Orbit, 2019.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?679554] |
| − | ''The Fifth Season''. Orbit, 2015. For all the books in the trilogy, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database for translations, awards and reviews (at links).[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1878015] | + | ''The Fifth Season''. Orbit, 2015. For all the books in the trilogy, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database for translations, awards, and reviews (at links).[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1878015] |
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''The Obelisk Gate''. Orbit, 2016.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2019754] | ''The Obelisk Gate''. Orbit, 2016.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2019754] | ||
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''The Stone Sky''. Orbit, 2017.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2226723] | ''The Stone Sky''. Orbit, 2017.[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2226723] | ||
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Afrofuturist SF/F novels. Reviewed extensively and covered in Wikipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#Broken_Earth_series] Our source here for content is Amandine Faucheux's review of ''The Stone Sky'' (with references to the earlier novels) in ''SFRA Review'' #324 (Spring 2018): pp. 20-21.[http://sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20324.pdf] | Afrofuturist SF/F novels. Reviewed extensively and covered in Wikipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Season_(novel)][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#Broken_Earth_series] Our source here for content is Amandine Faucheux's review of ''The Stone Sky'' (with references to the earlier novels) in ''SFRA Review'' #324 (Spring 2018): pp. 20-21.[http://sfra.org/resources/Documents/SFRA%20324.pdf] | ||
Of immediate interest for the wiki (if arguably a spoiler): | Of immediate interest for the wiki (if arguably a spoiler): | ||
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| − | Both ''The Fifth Season'' and ''The Obelisk Gate'' use clever plot twists to reveal that what the reader assumed to be a commonly primitive, far-in-the-past fantasy setting actually exists so far in the future as to contain unfathomably advanced technology (that translates as “magic” to us). In this volume [i.e., ''Stone Sky''], we finally discover the backstory of Hoa, Essun’s Stone Eater ally and narrator of all three volumes. Forty thousand years ago, Hoa was conceived as a “machine” by the futuristic city of Syl Anagist, in order to use the Earth’s power to fuel their technology. | + | Both ''The Fifth Season'' and ''The Obelisk Gate'' use clever plot twists to reveal that what the reader assumed to be a commonly primitive, far-in-the-past fantasy setting actually exists so far in the future as to contain unfathomably advanced technology (that translates as “magic” to us). In this volume [i.e., ''Stone Sky''], we finally discover the backstory of Hoa, Essun’s Stone Eater ally and narrator of all three volumes. Forty thousand years ago, Hoa was conceived as a “machine” by the futuristic city of Syl Anagist, in order to use the Earth’s power to fuel their technology. [* * *] |
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| + | Jemisin’s elaborate metaphor for the enslavement of African-Americans and its aftermath resonates in her narrative with current issues. [...] In ''The Obelisk Gate'', Essun is forced to murder her own infant son to protect him from becoming a node-maintainer (a physically restrained, alive but unconscious machine) in a in a scene reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s ''Beloved'' (1979).[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)] (Faucheux p. 20) | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:21, 13 October 2021
Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy (also, The Fifth Season Trilogy). Omnibus. New York City: Orbit US, 2018. London, UK: Orbit, 2019.[1]
The Fifth Season. Orbit, 2015. For all the books in the trilogy, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database for translations, awards, and reviews (at links).[2]
The Obelisk Gate. Orbit, 2016.[3]
The Stone Sky. Orbit, 2017.[4]
Afrofuturist SF/F novels. Reviewed extensively and covered in Wikipedia. [5][6] Our source here for content is Amandine Faucheux's review of The Stone Sky (with references to the earlier novels) in SFRA Review #324 (Spring 2018): pp. 20-21.[7]
Of immediate interest for the wiki (if arguably a spoiler):
Both The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate use clever plot twists to reveal that what the reader assumed to be a commonly primitive, far-in-the-past fantasy setting actually exists so far in the future as to contain unfathomably advanced technology (that translates as “magic” to us). In this volume [i.e., Stone Sky], we finally discover the backstory of Hoa, Essun’s Stone Eater ally and narrator of all three volumes. Forty thousand years ago, Hoa was conceived as a “machine” by the futuristic city of Syl Anagist, in order to use the Earth’s power to fuel their technology. [* * *]
Jemisin’s elaborate metaphor for the enslavement of African-Americans and its aftermath resonates in her narrative with current issues. [...] In The Obelisk Gate, Essun is forced to murder her own infant son to protect him from becoming a node-maintainer (a physically restrained, alive but unconscious machine) in a in a scene reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1979).[8] (Faucheux p. 20)
RDE, finishing, 12Oct21
