The Fifth Season

by Jemisin, N. K.
ISBN: 9780316229296
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At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends...for the last time.
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.

Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:

The Inheritance Trilogy
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Broken Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Gods

The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)
Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)
The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)

Dreamblood Duology
The Killing Moon
The Shadowed Sun

The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gate

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Jemisin, N. K.
  • ISBN: 9780316229296
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.40
  • Number Of Pages: 512
  • Publication Year: 2015

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  • A dark epic fantasy of earth-shaking sorcerers in pain.

    Adam D. - 2 years ago

    Every book of the Broken Earth trilogy won a Hugo award. It started here, with startling worldbuilding, the fall of an empire, and characters struggling to survive in a world which expects perfection in exchange for letting them live. The book is dark. Tragedies crowd out successes and people are grossly abused in a way fiction often shies away from. If the weight of it doesn't turn you off, you'll be rewarded with a story of unusual and lingering power. Nothing comes easy to the characters here, and it makes their moments of triumph worth savoring. The evils they confront are more often the fault of other people than they are demonic warlords, and the mysteries you'll entangle have more to do with how people work than the (clever and intriguing) system of magic. This is still epic fantasy; cities rise and fall, individuals seize unimaginable strength, and you'll forget the pain for a moment when you dream of what it would be like to control the movement of the earth, or draw the heat out of the air, or preserve your culture in a world where the earth wants to tear everything down and apart. It's just an epic fantasy whose highest quest is trying to save a lost child from a small farming town and saving the kingdom isn't a priority. It's worth your time.

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  • A Pillar of Modern Fantasy

    Cody S. - 4 years 5 months ago

    N. K. Jemesin's The Fifth Season is an astounding work of modern fantasy not just because of the story it tells, but because of the world which tells it. In the world of The Stillness, unceasing tectonic energy causes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis that make establishing any sort of permanent home next to impossible. Every town, every village, every city, teeters on a knife's edge between civilization and destruction. These bastions of civilized life in a wild world are guarded by Orogenes, a group of people capable of controlling the power of the earth to such a degree that it terrifies everyone around them. For this reason, Orogenes are viewed with suspicion at best, outright hostility at worst. It is in such a world that Jemisin lays out a story of oppression, revenge, and the end of the world. Yet despite building a world that constantly dances between life and death, Jemisin does not fail to imbue her characters with so much sympathy and humanity that it is almost impossible not to grow attached. The Fifth Season is a work that utterly gushes with atmosphere and is impossible to put down.

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  • Worth every award it's gotten!

    Laura K. - 4 years 7 months ago

    N.K. Jemisin's earlier works such as the Inheritance Trilogy and the Dreamblood series are amazing, but she steps her game up in this newest series beginning with The Fifth Season. I love volcanoes and science fiction/fantasy, so having them both together is fabulous for me. The Fifth Season starts as the world is ending and follows our character, an outcast for her unique powers of controlling the earth's tectonics, as she deals with personal trauma. It's a well-crafted, intensely rich world with beautiful and flawed characters. Jemisin is now on my top five lists of authors I love and want to devour everything written by them. The first two books of this series won the Hugo and the third book is nominated (and should win). It's the best thing in fantasy today!

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  • The art of genre fiction

    Ellis W. - 5 years 11 months ago

    This book is among the best examples of contemporary science fiction I've read. Its beautifully layered narrative pays off consistently.

  • Fantastic book

    Emily E. - 6 years 1 month ago

    Fantastic first book to an amazing trilogy. Once you're hooked, good luck putting any of the three books down!