N.K. Jemisin
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.
The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)
N.K. Jemisin
For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameris' ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.
Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.
But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
La quinta stagione (La Terra Spezzata #1)
N.K. Jemisin
È iniziata la stagione della fine. Con un’enorme frattura che percorre l’Immoto, l’unico continente del pianeta, da parte a parte, una faglia che sputa tanta cenere da oscurare il cielo per anni. O secoli. Comincia con la morte, con un figlio assassinato e una figlia scomparsa. Comincia con il tradimento e con ferite a lungo sopite che tornano a pulsare.
L’Immoto è da sempre abituato alle catastrofi, alle terribili Quinte Stagioni che ne sconquassano periodicamente le viscere provocando sismi e sconvolgimenti climatici. Quelle Stagioni che gli orogeni sono in grado di prevedere, controllare, provocare. Per questo sono temuti e odiati più della lunga e fredda notte; per questo vengono perseguitati, nascosti, uccisi; o, se sono fortunati, sono presi fin da piccoli e messi sotto la tutela di un Custode, nel Fulcro, e costretti a usare il loro potere per il bene del mondo.
È in questa terra spezzata che si trovano a vivere Damaya, Essun e Syenite, tre orogene legate da un unico destino.
The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city.
Oree's peculiar guest is at the heart of it, his presence putting her in mortal danger -- but is it him the killers want, or Oree? And is the earthly power of the Arameri king their ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?
The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
THE CITY BURNED BENEATH THE DREAMING MOON
In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and among the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers - the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe...and kill those judged corrupt.
But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh's great temple, the Gatherer Ehiru must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers in the goddess's name, and Ehiru must now protect the woman he was sent to kill - or watch the city be devoured by war and forbidden magic.
The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep. Trapped between dark dreams and cruel overlords, the people yearn to rise up—but Gujaareh has known peace for too long.
Someone must show them the way.
Hope lies with two outcasts: the first woman ever allowed to join the dream goddess’ priesthood, and an exiled prince who longs to reclaim his birthright. Together, they must resist the Kisuati occupation and uncover the source of the killing dreams... before Gujaareh is lost forever.
The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth. All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside. In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction. N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, which began with The City We Became and concludes with The World We Make, is a masterpiece of speculative fiction from one of the most important writers of her generation.
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
N.K. Jemisin
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow south must figure out how to save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
The Inheritance Trilogy (Inheritance, #1-3.5)
N.K. Jemisin
The Inheritance Trilogy omnibus includes the novels: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The Kingdom of Gods and a brand-new novella set in the same world. The Awakened Kingdom.
In this omnibus edition of N.K. Jemisin's brilliantly original award-winning fantasy series, a young woman becomes entangled in a power struggle of mythic proportions.
A REALM OF GODS AND MORTALS.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle.
Emergency Skin
N.K. Jemisin
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind—hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out eons ago. After all this time, there’s no telling how they’ve devolved. Steel yourself, soldier. Get in. Get out. And try not to stare.
N. K. Jemisin’s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
N.K. Jemisin
A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories from 2017.
Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about space ships and dragons, future technology and ancient magic, and the places where they intersect. Contemporary science fiction and fantasy looks to accomplish the same goal as ever—to illuminate what it means to be human. With a diverse selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor N. K. Jemisin, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 explores the ever-expanding and changing world of SFF today, with Jemisin bringing her lyrical, endlessly curious point of view to the series’ latest edition.
Rivers Run Free / Charles Payseur --
Destroy the City With Me Tonight / Kate Alice Marshall --
You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych / Kathleen Kayembe --
Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities / Lettie Prell --
Loneliness is in Your Blood / Cadwell Turnbull --
The Hermit of Houston / Samuel R. Delany --
The Last Cheng Beng Gift / Jaymee Goh --
Brightened Star, Ascending Dawn / A. Merc Rustad --
The Resident / Carmen Maria Machado --
The Greatest One-Star Restaurant in the Whole Quadrant / Rachael K. Jones --
Tasting Notes on the Varietals of the Southern Coast / Gwendolyn Clare --
Don't Press Charges and I Won't Sue / Charlie Jane Anders --
Church of Birds / Micah Dean Hicks --
ZeroS / Peter Watts --
Carnival Nine / Caroline M. Yoachim --
The Wretched and the Beautiful / E. Lily Yu --
The Orange Tree / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Cannibal Acts / Maureen McHugh --
Black Powder / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell
Far Sector
N.K. Jemisin
For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. As a result, violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent.
But that's all about to change in this new maxiseries that gives a DC Young Animal spin to the legacy of the Green Lanterns!
The Dreamblood Duology
N.K. Jemisin
The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon.
In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers -- the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe... and kill those judged corrupt.
>But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh's great temple, Ehiru -- the most famous of the city's Gatherers -- must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering dreamers in the goddess' name, stalking its prey both in Gujaareh's alleys and the realm of dreams. Ehiru must now protect the woman he was sent to kill -- or watch the city be devoured by war and forbidden magic.
The Dreamblood Duology includes the novels The Killing Moon and The Shadowed Sun.
Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball
N.K. Jemisin
Tor.com is honored to reprint “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball,” a short story by N.K. Jemisin, originally published in the August 2008 issue of Jim Baen’s Universe.
In “Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball,” a police detective tries to understand how a children’s dispute over a playing card could have led to a mysterious disappearance.
The Awakened Kingdom (The Inheritance Trilogy, #3.5)
N.K. Jemisin
The long awaited sequel to the Inheritance trilogy -- a novella by award winning author N. K. Jemisin where a godling must struggle to grow in the shadow of her parents. SOME TRUTHS MUST BE LEARNED THE HARD WAY... As the first new godling born in thousands of years -- and the heir presumptive to Sieh the Trickster -- Shill's got big shoes to fill. She's well on her way when she defies her parents and sneaks off to the mortal realm, which is no place for an impressionable young god. In short order she steals a demon's grandchild, gets herself embroiled in a secret underground magical dance competition, and offends her oldest and most powerful sibling.But for Eino, the young Darren man whom Shill has befriended, the god-child's silly games are serious business. Trapped in an arranged marriage and prohibited from pursuing his dreams, he has had enough. He will choose his own fate, even if he must betray a friend in the process -- and Shill might just have to grow up faster than she thinks.This novella, THE AWAKENED KINGDOM takes place after the events of The Kingdom of Gods and will also be included in both the print and ebook ominbus of THE INHERITANCE TRILOGY in 12/14.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request that would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5)
N.K. Jemisin
Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.
From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales. A newborn god with an old, old soul struggles to find a reason to live. A powerful demon searches for her father, and answers. And in a prequel to the Inheritance Trilogy, a newly-enslaved Nahadoth forges a dark alliance with a mortal, for survival. . . and revenge.
Return to the world of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms in these three interconnected short tales.
Cerul de piatră (Pământul sfărâmat, #3)
N.K. Jemisin
Neclintirea se confruntă în continuare cu seisme frecvente și consecințele sunt dezastruoase, iar Luna pare să fie singura ce poate pune capăt celui de-Al Cincilea Anotimp… dacă va fi readusă pe orbita Pământului. Așa speră Essun, hotărâtă să îndrepte o lume în declin. Planul ei nu coincide însă cu al lui Nassun, care are acum puterea deplină de a deschide Poarta Obeliscului și de a distruge omenirea.
Cum ne putem pregăti pentru viitor,
dacă refuzăm să ținem seama de trecut?
La quinta estación (Tierra fragmentada, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
"La quinta estación" es la primera novela de "La Tierra Fragmentada", serie que mezcla fantasía y ciencia ficción, y que ha hecho merecedora a su autora de dos Premios Hugo a la mejor novela consecutivos: 2016 por la presente y 2017 por "El portal de los obeliscos" (La Tierra Fragmentada, # 2).
Toda era tiene que llegar a su fin. Ha dado comienzo una estación de desenlaces. Empieza con una gran grieta roja que recorre las entrañas del único continente del planeta, una grieta que escupe una ceniza que oculta la luz del sol. Empieza con la muerte, con un hijo asesinado y una hija perdida. Empieza con una traición, con heridas latentes que comienzan a supurar. El lugar es la Quietud, un continente acostumbrado a la catástrofe en el que la energía de la tierra se utiliza como arma. Y en el que no hay lugar para la misericordia.
La ciudad que nos unió
N.K. Jemisin
Toda gran ciudad tiene un alma. algunas son tan antiguas como los mitos, y otras, tan nuevas y destructivas como los niños. Nueva York tiene seis...
Toda ciudad tiene también un lado oscuro. Un mal antiguo y furibundo agita los pasillos del poder, amenazando con destruir Nueva York y a sus seis avatares recién nacidos, a no ser que estos consigan unirse y logren ponerle fin de una vez por todas.
Miasto, którym się staliśmy (Wielkie miasta, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Chodź, Miasto, Które Nigdy Nie Śpi. Pokażę ci, co kryje się w ciemnych rewirach, w które boją się zbłądzić nawet koszmary.
Młody student wysiada z metra na Manhattanie i nagle dociera do niego, że nie pamięta, kim jest i skąd pochodzi, ani nawet jak się nazywa. Ale wyczuwa bicie potężnego serca Nowego Jorku, widzi jego historię i czuje jego moc.
Wywodząca się z rdzennego plemienia Lenape dyrektorka galerii sztuki odkrywa na Bronksie kolejne osobliwe graffiti, tak piękne i wyraziste, że gotowa jest przysiąc, że woła do niej swoim własnym głosem.
Polityczka i matka spacerująca ulicami Brooklynu uprzytamnia sobie, że słyszy pieśń swojego miasta, która brzmi jej w głowie w rytm wystukiwany na chodniku przez jej nowe louboutiny.
Jest ich więcej.
Każde wielkie miasto posiada duszę. Niektóre są Przedwieczne jak mity, inne młode i nie mniej niszczycielskie od dzieci.
A Nowy Jork? On ma tych dusz aż sześć.
Lua de Sangue (Dreamblood, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin, autora best-seller e a única a ganhar o Hugo Awards por três anos consecutivos, nos apresenta um mundo com clérigos assassinos, reis loucos e a deusa da morte, onde o poder dos sonhos pode curar ou matar
A paz é a única lei na antiga cidade-estado de Gujaareh. Sobre seus telhados e entre as sombras de suas ruas de pedra espreitam os Coletores — os guardiões desta paz e responsáveis por fazer com que a Lei seja cumprida. Sacerdotes de Hananja, a Deusa dos Sonhos, possuem o dever de colher a magia da mente adormecida e usá-la para curar, acalmar… e matar aqueles que são julgados corruptos.
Mas, quando uma conspiração surge dentro do grande templo de Gujaareh, Ehiru — o mais famoso dos Coletores da cidade — passa a questionar tudo o que ele conhece. Alguém, ou algo, está assassinando sonhadores inocentes em nome da Deusa e perseguindo suas vítimas tanto nas vielas de Gujaareh, como na terra dos sonhos. Ehiru deve agora proteger a mulher que foi enviado para matar — ou ver a cidade ser devorada pela guerra e pela magia proibida.
Far Sector #2
N.K. Jemisin
Rookie Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein’s investigation of the first murder in 500 years hits a snag when the murderer is murdered. Whatever’s going on, it’s something to do with Switchoff, a highly illegal genetic cocktail that restores dangerous feelings to the emotionless citizens of the City Enduring...
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.
Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.
El portal de los obeliscos (Trilogía de la Tierra Fragmentada, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
"El portal de los obeliscos" es la segunda parte de "La Tierra Fragmentada", serie que mezcla fantasía épica y ciencia ficción, y que ha hecho merecedora a su autora de dos Premios Hugo a la mejor novela consecutivos: 2017 por la presente y 2016 por "La quinta estación" (La Tierra Fragmentada, # 1).
Toda era tiene que llegar a su fin. Ha dado comienzo una estación de desenlaces. Empieza con una gran grieta roja que recorre las entrañas del único continente del planeta, una grieta que escupe una ceniza que oculta la luz del sol. Empieza con la muerte, con un hijo asesinado y una hija perdida. Empieza con una traición, con heridas latentes que comienzan a supurar. El lugar es la Quietud, un continente acostumbrado a la catástrofe en el que la energía de la tierra se utiliza como arma. Y en el que no hay lugar para la misericordia.
The City Born Great (Great Cities, #0.5)
N.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.
Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Il portale degli obelischi
N.K. Jemisin
La Stagione della fine si fa sempre più buia, mentre la civiltà sprofonda in una notte senza termine. Essun ha trovato un luogo dove rifugiarsi, ma soprattutto ha trovato Alabaster, sorprendentemente ancora vivo; ha inoltre scoperto che è stato lui, ormai in procinto di trasformarsi in pietra, a provocare la frattura nel continente e a scatenare una Stagione che forse non terminerà mai. E ora Alabaster ha una richiesta da farle: deve usare il suo potere per chiamare un obelisco. Agendo così, però, segnerà per sempre il destino del continente Immoto. Nel frattempo, molto lontano, anche Nassun, la figlia perduta di Essun, è forse approdata in un luogo dove sentirsi a casa, dove coltivare la sua straordinaria dote di orogenia, per diventare sempre più potente. Ma anche Nassun dovrà compiere scelte decisive, in grado di mutare il futuro del mondo intero.
Zerrissene Erde
N.K. Jemisin
Inmitten einer sterbenden Welt hat die verzweifelte Essun nur ein Ziel: ihre Tochter aus den Händen eines Mörders zu befreien, den sie nur zu gut kennt.
Seit sich im Herzen des Landes Sanze ein gewaltiger Riss voll brodelnder Lava aufgetan hat, dessen Asche den Himmel verdüstert, scheinen immer mehr Menschen dem Wahnsinn zu verfallen. So lässt der Herrscher seine eigenen Bürger ermorden. Doch nicht Soldaten haben Essuns kleinen Sohn erschlagen und ihre Tochter entführt – sondern ihr eigener Ehemann! Essun folgt den beiden durch ein Land, das zur Todesfalle geworden ist. Und der Krieg ums nackte Überleben steht erst noch bevor.
O Portão do Obelisco (The Broken Earth, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
É ASSIM QUE O MUNDO TERMINA. PELA ÚLTIMA VEZ.
No segundo volume da série vencedora de três prêmios Hugo consecutivos, o fim se torna mais escuro enquanto a civilização desvanece na noite longa e fria. Alabaster Dez-anéis – louco, destruidor, salvador – voltou com uma missão: treinar sua sucessora, Essun, e com isso selar o destino da Quietude para sempre.
A história continua com uma filha perdida – encontrada pelo inimigo – cujas escolhas poderão partir o mundo. Continua com os obeliscos e mistérios antigos que finalmente convergem em respostas. A Quietude é a muralha que se impõe contra os fluxos da tradição, a centelha de esperança há muito enterrada sobre a crescente camada de cinzas. E ela não será quebrada.
O Céu de Pedra (The Broken Earth, #3)
N.K. Jemisin
É ASSIM QUE O MUNDO TERMINA. PELA ÚLTIMA VEZ.
A Lua em breve retornará. Se isso irá trazer a destruição da humanidade ou algo ainda pior dependerá de duas mulheres.
Essun herdou o poder de Alabaster Dez-anéis. E com ele, tem a esperança de encontrar sua filha Nassun e estabelecer um mundo no qual toda criança orogene possa crescer em segurança.
Para Nassun, o domínio de sua mãe sobre o Portão do Obelisco vem tarde demais. Ela foi testemunha da perversão do mundo e aceitou o que sua mãe não quer admitir: às vezes o que é corrupto já não pode ser purificado, apenas destruído.
A marcante conclusão da trilogia best-seller do New York Times, ganhadora de três Hugo Awards em sequência.
A Quinta Estação (A Terra Partida, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Vencedor do Hugo Awards
É assim que o mundo termina.
Pela última vez.
Três coisas terríveis acontecem em um único dia: Essun volta para casa e descobre que seu marido assassinou brutalmente o próprio filho e sequestrou sua filha. Sanze, o poderoso império cujas inovações têm sido o fundamento da civilização por mais de mil anos, colapsa frente à destruição de sua maior cidade pelas mãos de um homem louco e vingativo. E, no coração do único continente, uma grande fenda vermelha foi aberta e expele cinzas capazes de escurecer o céu e apagar o sol por anos. Ou séculos.
Mas esta é a Quietude, lugar há muito acostumado à catástrofe, onde os orogenes – aqueles que empunham o poder da terra como uma arma – são mais temidos do que a longa e fria noite. E onde não há compaixão.
“Um dos 100 livros mais notáveis do ano” – New York Times
“A trilogia ‘A Terra Partida’ é uma conquista triunfante na literatura de fantasia” – The Verge
La città che siamo diventati
N.K. Jemisin
Manhattan: uno studente si accorge di non ricordare chi è, da dove viene e persino come si chiama. Riesce però a sentire il cuore pulsante della città.
Bronx: la direttrice di una galleria d'arte scopre strani graffiti sparsi per la città, così belli e intensi che sembrano parlarle.
Brooklyn: una madre single capisce di poter udire il canto della città, che segue il ritmo dei suoi tacchi Louboutin.
La città è viva, e sta chiamando.
The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Broken Earth, #1-3)
N.K. Jemisin
This boxed set edition includes all three books in N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy.
This complete collection includes The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky.
This is the way the world ends for the last time...
A season of endings has begun. 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.
La ciudad que nació grandiosa y otros relatos
N.K. Jemisin
La autora que ha hecho historia al ganar tres Premios Hugo consecutivos.
PREMIO LOCUS 2019 a mejor colección de relatos.
La primera colección de relatos de la autora de la famosa «Trilogía de la Tierra Fragmentada» ofrece un examen agudo de la sociedad moderna, a través de temas de crucial importancia como la raza y el género.
Dragones y apariciones rondan las calles inundadas de Nueva Orleans tras el huracán Katrina. En un universo paralelo, una sociedad utópica evita ser intoxicada por las ideas de nuestro mundo. En el sur de Jim Crow, una madre negra debe salvar a su hija de una hechicera que la condenaría a una vida de servidumbre. Y en la historia nominada al Premio Hugo, «La ciudad que nació grandiosa», un chico de la calle lucha para dar a luz al alma de una vieja metrópolis.
N.K. Jemisin es una autora estadounidense de ficción especulativa. Después de ganar tres Premios Hugo con la Trilogía de la Tierra Fragmentada, esta es su primera colección de relatos.
Al cincilea anotimp (Pământul sfărâmat, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Primăvară, vară, toamnă, iarnă. Moartea-i Al Cincilea Anotimp şi le stăpâneşte pe toate.
Singurul continent al planetei, numit în mod ironic Neclintirea, este zguduit constant de cutremure devastatoare. O dată la câteva sute de ani, locuitorii lui au de înfruntat un Al Cincilea Anotimp. Furia Pământului se dezlănţuie într-un sezon al dezastrelor naturale, al foametei, al cruzimii şi-al luptei pentru supravieţuire. Sfârşitul lumii e inevitabil, dar nu e singura problemă. Ce e de făcut când sistemul rigid în care trăieşti se teme de tine, manipulează şi ucide cu sânge rece?
Pentru Essun n-are importanţă că lumea e în ruine. O s-o distrugă chiar ea dacă numai aşa poate să se răzbune.
Nu poţi să faci lucrurile să meargă mai bine. Lumea e ceea ce e. N-ai cum s-o schimbi decât dacă o distrugi şi o iei de la capăt.
Poarta Obeliscului (The Broken Earth, #2)
N.K. Jemisin
Continua decădere a civilizației face mai sumbru sfârșitul anotimpului. Soarta planetei poate fi însă schimbată, numai că speranța este adânc îngropată sub cenușă. Vechile adevăruri ale popoarelor dispărute ies din nou la suprafață, iar războiul purtat de-a lungul veacurilor se poate apropia de final. Alabastru - nebunul, distrugătorul lumii, salvatorul - s-a întors cu o misiune: să-și instruiască succesoarea, pe Essun, pecetluind astfel, pentru totdeauna, soarta Neclintirii.
La Cinquième Saison (Les Livres de la Terre fracturée #1)
N.K. Jemisin
La terre tremble si souvent sur votre monde que la civilisation y est menacée en permanence. Le pire s’est d’ailleurs déjà produit plus d’une fois : de grands cataclysmes ont détruit les plus fières cités et soumis la planète à des hivers terribles, d’interminables nuits auxquelles l’humanité n’a survécu que de justesse. Les gens comme vous, les orogènes, qui possèdent le don de dompter volcans et séismes, devraient être vénérés. Mais c’est tout l’inverse. Vous devez vous cacher, vous faire passer pour une autre. Jusqu’au jour où votre mari découvre la vérité, massacre de ses poings votre fils de trois ans et kidnappe votre fille.
El cielo de piedra (Trilogía de la Tierra Fragmentada, #3)
N.K. Jemisin
La autora que ha hecho historia al ganar tres Premios Hugo consecutivos a la mejor novela.
La Luna volverá pronto. Que su regreso proclame la destrucción de la humanidad dependerá de dos mujeres. Essun ha heredado el poder de Alabastro Decanillado. Con él espera encontrar a su hija Nassun y forjar un mundo en que los niños orogenes crezcan a salvo. Para Nassun, el que su madre haya sido capaz de dominar el Portal de los Obeliscos es algo que llega tarde. Ha sido testigo del mal que hay en el mundo y ha aceptado lo que Essun no comprende: que, a veces, lo que está corrompido no se puede purificar y hay que destruirlo.
N. K. Jemisin ha ganado los premios Hugo 2016, 2017 y 2018 a la mejor novela por los tres volúmenes de esta trilogía.
Los cien mil reinos (El legado, #1)
N.K. Jemisin
La joven Yeine de Darr tendrá que sobrevivir a la intriga, la traición y la pasión en Los Cien Mil Reinos
«Mi nombre es Yeine, y aunque tan sólo tengo diecinueve años, soy la baronesa de Darr. Hoy he sido llamada a palacio por Dekarta Arameri, que es mi abuelo y también el monarca de los Cien Mil Reinos, protegido y designado por el propio Padre Celestial, nuestro Dios.
Una vez hubo tres Dioses, pero dos de ellos murieron, o eso es lo que nos dijeron. Se dice que los descendientes de Darr llevan en su sangre un secreto que se remonta a aquella lejana época en que los tres dioses caminaban entre los mortales.
Quizá mi abuelo me haya llamado para tenerme a su lado como capricho, o quizá quiera presentarme en la corte real para unirme en matrimonio de conveniencia. Quizá quiera revelarme ese secreto de sangre, aunque me temo que saberlo, según los libros sagrados, equivale a estar muerto.»
Yeine de Darr es una exiliada del bárbaro norte. Pero al morir su madre en extrañas circunstancias, es convocada a la majestuosa ciudad del Cielo. Allí, para su asombro, descubre que es una de las posibles herederas al trono. Pero la corona de los Cien Mil Reinos no es un premio fácil de conseguir y Yeine se ve implicada en una cruenta lucha por el poder.
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
N.K. Jemisin
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.
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.
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.
The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.
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