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The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2)

by N. K. Jemisin
The Obelisk Gate (Broken Earth #2)

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ISBN13: 9780316229265
ISBN10: 0316229261



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2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year

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Listen, whether you are an old sci-fi aficionado or skeptical of what the genre has to offer, I daresay you can do no better than N. K. Jemisin and her awesome Broken Earth series. The Obelisk Gate continues where The Fifth Season left off, but to call this a mere sequel would be an injustice. Packed tight with intriguing characters who face immeasurable difficulties, a palpable environment which — can you believe it? — is deteriorating all around, and the intense power of the orogenes, The Obelisk Gate will take you to an exciting place altogether inventive, beguiling, and heart-racing. Don't be late to the craze that is the Broken Earth trilogy, you surely won't regret it. Recommended By Alex Y., Powells.com

N. K. Jemisin continues the remarkable story begun in The Fifth Season. A highly satisfying read, a world I find myself absorbed in, so different and yet familiar because the people are real and relatable and much like people we all know. Recommended By Doug C., Powells.com

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This is the way the world ends, for the last time.

The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.

Essun — once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger — has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power — and her choices will break the world.

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"Exceptional." Library Journal (Starred Review)

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"With every new work, Jemisin's ability to build worlds and break hearts only grows." Kirkus Review (Starred Review)

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"...meticulous pacing...thorough character work...staggering ambition and revelations of the narration....pole-vaults over the expectations I had for what epic fantasy should be and stands in magnificent testimony to what it could be." NPR

About the Author

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 previoiusly 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, and Nebula 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.

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Jeffrey Bluhm , January 25, 2019 (view all comments by Jeffrey Bluhm)
Highly imaginative and genuinely original series that, if one must assign a category, probably falls closer to fantasy than science fiction. I'm reviewing all three books in the series with this one review, in part because (duh) it's a series and if you're going to read one book you should commit to all three, and also because, more than most trilogies, there's little separation from one novel to the next; these could easily have been published as one book as there isn't much sense of a climax, or a pause in the narrative, at the ends of the first two books. The plot follows a few (but ultimately focuses on two) of the subset of humans that can control geological forces - the flow of magma, the movement of continental faults, the raising and lowering of mountainous amounts of rock. While forces of incomprehensible power are on display, there's also a very human and intimate element to the central plot of a woman who has loved, lost all, recovered, and is again threatened with loss of everything of value to her. My only criticism, as a self-confessed literalist, is that some of the storytelling can be a bit ephemeral, but if you don't mind the occasional vagueness of the prose (this is not a criticism of the writer's ability, just a personal preference) then this series has nothing to detract from the enjoyment it otherwise consistently delivers.

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ISBN:
9780316229265
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/16/2016
Publisher:
ORBIT
Series info:
Broken Earth
Pages:
448
Height:
1.30IN
Width:
5.40IN
Series:
Broken Earth
Series Number:
2
Series Volume:
2
Author:
N K Jemisin
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