Fantasy· United States
The Fifth Season
by N.K. JemisinAggregate Editorial Score78/100
★Hugo Award
Published 20161424 pagesEnglish
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N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season (2016) stands as one of the most significant works of fantasy of its era. On a dying, apocalypse-prone world called the Stillness, a woman searches for her daughter amid continent-spanning catastrophe, while two other narratives unfold in parallel. Jemisin's Hugo Award–winning debut of the Broken Earth trilogy—the first of three consecutive Hugo wins—is a revolutionary work: formally experimental, racially charged, and devastating. Themes of race, climate, apocalypse run through the work. The book has received recognition from Hugo Award 2016.
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Stories set in imaginary worlds with magical or supernatural elements.
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