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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent, a great red rift has been torn which spews show more ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. But this is the Stillness, a land long familiar with struggle, and where orogenes -- those who wield the power of the earth as a weapon -- are feared far more than the long cold night. Essun has remembered herself, and she will have her daughter back. She does not care if the world falls apart around her. Essun will break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter. show lessTags
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I am very late to the party when it comes to reading N. K. Jemisin's multi-Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy, especially considering how much I've enjoyed the other stuff of hers that I've read. But I'm very glad to have finally started on it now!
This is set in a world that is hugely, disastrously geologically active and experiences irregular Fifth Seasons: years-long periods of earthquakes and persistent winter, thanks to volcanoes or other geologic upheavals. In this world, there are people who can sense and control the movement of the earth, and these people are in turn controlled by others, used by them but never trusted, respected, or allowed their freedom.
It's a really interesting setting, and I like the way Jemisin just show more sort of drops us into it and lets us figure it all out as we go along. At the beginning, I was intrigued but definitely having to work to get a sense of this world, but by the end I'd become quite... Well, I was going to say "quite comfortable in it," but that's really not the phrase for it. It's not remotely a comfortable world, and certainly not a happy story. And there are still plenty of things that are mysterious by the end of this first volume. Enough things, indeed, that I'm very much looking forward to exploring them in the rest of the series. There is a certain extent to which this one feels like setup for things to come, but it's also a good story in its own right, and one that does some cool things, not just with worldbuilding, but with character and structure, too. show less
This is set in a world that is hugely, disastrously geologically active and experiences irregular Fifth Seasons: years-long periods of earthquakes and persistent winter, thanks to volcanoes or other geologic upheavals. In this world, there are people who can sense and control the movement of the earth, and these people are in turn controlled by others, used by them but never trusted, respected, or allowed their freedom.
It's a really interesting setting, and I like the way Jemisin just show more sort of drops us into it and lets us figure it all out as we go along. At the beginning, I was intrigued but definitely having to work to get a sense of this world, but by the end I'd become quite... Well, I was going to say "quite comfortable in it," but that's really not the phrase for it. It's not remotely a comfortable world, and certainly not a happy story. And there are still plenty of things that are mysterious by the end of this first volume. Enough things, indeed, that I'm very much looking forward to exploring them in the rest of the series. There is a certain extent to which this one feels like setup for things to come, but it's also a good story in its own right, and one that does some cool things, not just with worldbuilding, but with character and structure, too. show less
The centrepiece of this heartstopping book is some breathtakingly savage and brutal worldbuilding - a land constantly on the edge of catastrophe, constantly in waiting for the next apocalypse as geological instability leads to massive eruptions and quakes with attendant disastrous aftereffects - tsunamis, endless winters, famines etcetera. Civilisations and societies routinely break down and humanity struggles to survive and rebuild while trying to prepare for the next big blow. The Sanzed Empire has survived for several cycles now, largely because it has corralled and controlled the Orogenes, individuals with the ability to control kinetic and seismic energy, who can quell or cause quakes and whose full range of powers and abilities show more remain mysterious and untapped, largely through systematic demonisation and indoctrination. Imperial Orogenes are policed by a ruthless and powerful group called the Guardians.
The set-up is brutal, the society it creates is functional, thriving, even admirable, filled as it is with practices and norms that seem appalling (and yet not completely unfamiliar) to us. The book opens just as it all comes to an end, and in a terrible act of destruction, a massive rift is opened, triggering the downfall of the Empire and the start of a possibly final Fifth Season. It also starts with a smaller act of horror, as Essun, an Orogene in hiding in a small rural town, mourns the murder of her son by his father, and the taking of her daughter. While ash starts to fall, she pursues her husband and daughter through the slowly building chaos of a society starting to break down.
There is very little about this book that is not compelling, awe-inspiring, epic and jaw-dropping. It is also terrifying, horrifying and filled with pain, tragedy, guilt and injustice, yet it is told in a uniquely readable and engaging voice - people cope, adapt, survive, move on as best they can. It is not so much about the triumph of hope, too early in the trilogy to say that and it seems unlikely to be about anything so facile, but it is about bullishly continuing to exist in the face of a world that is constantly trying to wipe you out, and the cost of that survival. show less
The set-up is brutal, the society it creates is functional, thriving, even admirable, filled as it is with practices and norms that seem appalling (and yet not completely unfamiliar) to us. The book opens just as it all comes to an end, and in a terrible act of destruction, a massive rift is opened, triggering the downfall of the Empire and the start of a possibly final Fifth Season. It also starts with a smaller act of horror, as Essun, an Orogene in hiding in a small rural town, mourns the murder of her son by his father, and the taking of her daughter. While ash starts to fall, she pursues her husband and daughter through the slowly building chaos of a society starting to break down.
There is very little about this book that is not compelling, awe-inspiring, epic and jaw-dropping. It is also terrifying, horrifying and filled with pain, tragedy, guilt and injustice, yet it is told in a uniquely readable and engaging voice - people cope, adapt, survive, move on as best they can. It is not so much about the triumph of hope, too early in the trilogy to say that and it seems unlikely to be about anything so facile, but it is about bullishly continuing to exist in the face of a world that is constantly trying to wipe you out, and the cost of that survival. show less
This is the first novel in The Broken Earth Trilogy, and like me you've probably seen it referred to everywhere. It won the Hugo (as have each of the 2 succeeding volumes in the trilogy), but although I occasionally like science fiction, I usually don't like "Fantasy," and Fantasy was the category into which I had placed this novel. But then I learned that the author is an alum of my college (there was an article about her in the alum magazine), and there was a cheap Kindle deal, and so.....
I loved the book. It's set on a world in which the earth fights and does its best to destroy its inhabitants. The inhabitants sometimes relies on orogenes, who have powers to protect from the earth's furies, but mostly they fear orogenes, and show more frequently kill them. The main character of the trilogy is a "hidden" orogene, who returns home one day to find that her husband has discovered that their son and daughter are orogenes, and has killed their son and taken off with their daughter. About the same time, the earth has begun a "season" of fury--earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ash and fire.
Every aspect of the world-building is imaginative, original and believable. The characters are real. The plot builds intricacy upon intricacy. On finishing the book, I immediately ordered the second book from the library, and I'll also read the third, and look into other books Jemisin has written. I'm glad I didn't let my prejudices stand in the way of my reading this.
4 stars
BTW the author was just granted a McArthur Genius Award. show less
I loved the book. It's set on a world in which the earth fights and does its best to destroy its inhabitants. The inhabitants sometimes relies on orogenes, who have powers to protect from the earth's furies, but mostly they fear orogenes, and show more frequently kill them. The main character of the trilogy is a "hidden" orogene, who returns home one day to find that her husband has discovered that their son and daughter are orogenes, and has killed their son and taken off with their daughter. About the same time, the earth has begun a "season" of fury--earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, ash and fire.
Every aspect of the world-building is imaginative, original and believable. The characters are real. The plot builds intricacy upon intricacy. On finishing the book, I immediately ordered the second book from the library, and I'll also read the third, and look into other books Jemisin has written. I'm glad I didn't let my prejudices stand in the way of my reading this.
4 stars
BTW the author was just granted a McArthur Genius Award. show less
Many people recommended this book to me, and they were right. It's a brilliant work of world-building and character, with plenty of action and forward momentum, and three separate narratives that, when joined, lend the story even more power.
The Stillness is an unstable land, wracked by "shakes" (earthquakes) and "blows" (volcanic eruptions). People live in "comms" (communities), and everyone has a role and a corresponding use-caste name (strongback, innovator, etc.).
Orogenes - derogatively called roggas - are feared, as they have the power to manipulate the earth. In the Sanze empire, orogenes are controlled by Guardians, and trained in the Fulcrum in the city of Yumenes. Damaya is one of these: handed over to the Guardians as a child, show more she is raised and trained in the Fulcrum. She has an odd encounter with a girl called Binof, who sneaks into the Fulcrum to explore; their paths connect again later.
*Spoiler alerts to follow*
Syenite is a four-ringer (orogenes start as grits and then begin to earn rings, up to ten) who is sent on a mission with ten-ringer Alabaster; they are meant to dislodge some coral from the harbor of a coastal comm called Allia, and they are also meant to procreate. Neither is particularly happy about this. The coral removal goes wrong when Syen discovers a giant, broken obelisk under the sea bed, and raises it, complete with stone-eater inside. The harbor is devastated, and she and Alabaster flee to an island comm called Meov, presided over by charismatic pirate Innon.
Essun lives in a comm, hiding the fact that she is a rogga - as are her two children with her husband Jija. She comes home one day to find that Jija has killed their young son, Uche, and run off with their daughter, Nassun, and she sets off in search of them. She is not the only traveler; a massive shake with its epicenter in Yumenes has set off a new Season, and many are on the road. Essun meets up with Hoa, who she later discovers is a stone-eater (little is known about them), and Tonkee (who turns out to be Binof). The three of them are taken into an underground comm, where they seem to be both guests and captives; many orogenes are arriving there, and more than one stone-eater as well.
Quotes
"You think you matter? You think any of us matter beyond what we can do for them? Whether we obey or not....Each of us is just another weapon, to them. Just a useful monster, just a bit of new blood to add to the breeding lines. Just another fucking rogga." (Alabaster to Syenite at a node station, 143)
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all. -Arctic proverb (149)
"They are the gods in chains..." (Alabaster to Syen, quoting, 167)
The world is not fair, and sometimes it makes no sense. (Damaya, 194)
When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. (Syen, 231)
"No one really knows what you're capable of, do they?"
"I don't even know what I'm capable of, Syen. The things the Fulcrum taught me...I had to leave them behind, past a certain point. I had to make my own training. And sometimes, it seems, if I can just think differently, if I can shed enough of that they taught me and try something new, I might..." (Syen and Alabaster, 287)
It isn't right, what they're doing to her. What this place does to everyone within its walls. What he's making her do, to survive. (Damaya, 331)
"Now you'll see how much more we're capable of when we're willing." (Ykka to Essun, 333)
Necessity is the only law, says stonelore. (341)
This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years. (348)
"That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us." (Alabaster to Syenite, 354)
It's clear now that there's more to orogeny than the Fulcrum teaches - and maybe there's a reason the Fulcrum doesn't teach it... (380)
You're not used to having a life follow you when you leave it behind. (Essun, encountering Lerna from Tirimo, 401)
...it occurs to you that the goal is survival, and sometimes survival requires change. (409)
"It's a gift if it makes us better. It's a curse if we let it destroy us." (Alabaster to Syen, 418)
There are griefs too deep to be borne, and yet you have borne them again and again. (446) show less
The Stillness is an unstable land, wracked by "shakes" (earthquakes) and "blows" (volcanic eruptions). People live in "comms" (communities), and everyone has a role and a corresponding use-caste name (strongback, innovator, etc.).
Orogenes - derogatively called roggas - are feared, as they have the power to manipulate the earth. In the Sanze empire, orogenes are controlled by Guardians, and trained in the Fulcrum in the city of Yumenes. Damaya is one of these: handed over to the Guardians as a child, show more she is raised and trained in the Fulcrum. She has an odd encounter with a girl called Binof, who sneaks into the Fulcrum to explore; their paths connect again later.
*Spoiler alerts to follow*
Syenite is a four-ringer (orogenes start as grits and then begin to earn rings, up to ten) who is sent on a mission with ten-ringer Alabaster; they are meant to dislodge some coral from the harbor of a coastal comm called Allia, and they are also meant to procreate. Neither is particularly happy about this. The coral removal goes wrong when Syen discovers a giant, broken obelisk under the sea bed, and raises it, complete with stone-eater inside. The harbor is devastated, and she and Alabaster flee to an island comm called Meov, presided over by charismatic pirate Innon.
Essun lives in a comm, hiding the fact that she is a rogga - as are her two children with her husband Jija. She comes home one day to find that Jija has killed their young son, Uche, and run off with their daughter, Nassun, and she sets off in search of them. She is not the only traveler; a massive shake with its epicenter in Yumenes has set off a new Season, and many are on the road. Essun meets up with Hoa, who she later discovers is a stone-eater (little is known about them), and Tonkee (who turns out to be Binof). The three of them are taken into an underground comm, where they seem to be both guests and captives; many orogenes are arriving there, and more than one stone-eater as well.
Quotes
"You think you matter? You think any of us matter beyond what we can do for them? Whether we obey or not....Each of us is just another weapon, to them. Just a useful monster, just a bit of new blood to add to the breeding lines. Just another fucking rogga." (Alabaster to Syenite at a node station, 143)
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all. -Arctic proverb (149)
"They are the gods in chains..." (Alabaster to Syen, quoting, 167)
The world is not fair, and sometimes it makes no sense. (Damaya, 194)
When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. (Syen, 231)
"No one really knows what you're capable of, do they?"
"I don't even know what I'm capable of, Syen. The things the Fulcrum taught me...I had to leave them behind, past a certain point. I had to make my own training. And sometimes, it seems, if I can just think differently, if I can shed enough of that they taught me and try something new, I might..." (Syen and Alabaster, 287)
It isn't right, what they're doing to her. What this place does to everyone within its walls. What he's making her do, to survive. (Damaya, 331)
"Now you'll see how much more we're capable of when we're willing." (Ykka to Essun, 333)
Necessity is the only law, says stonelore. (341)
This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years. (348)
"That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us." (Alabaster to Syenite, 354)
It's clear now that there's more to orogeny than the Fulcrum teaches - and maybe there's a reason the Fulcrum doesn't teach it... (380)
You're not used to having a life follow you when you leave it behind. (Essun, encountering Lerna from Tirimo, 401)
...it occurs to you that the goal is survival, and sometimes survival requires change. (409)
"It's a gift if it makes us better. It's a curse if we let it destroy us." (Alabaster to Syen, 418)
There are griefs too deep to be borne, and yet you have borne them again and again. (446) show less
The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Audio performance by Robin Miles
4 stars
On a planet with an unstable land mass, there is a race of people who can initiate and control massive geological events. These extremely powerful people are the very ones who are exploited and enslaved. This is not a happy combination.
“For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
That dedication should have given me a clue. This book is so full of anger. It’s inventive. It feels like old mythology. It has many of the tropes of a coming of age adventure fantasy. But, it’s so very different from anything else that I’ve read. And, it’s so very full of anger.
There are three storylines which come together at the show more very end of the book, just before the ‘to be continued’ tagline. The ever changing perspective made the audiobook a little hard to follow although Robin Miles’ performance was excellent. I found it easier to put the story pieces together reading a text copy which included a glossary of terms and background history of this fantasy world. The world building is impressive. The characters are complex. The story captured my attention and kept me in some suspense. It’s disturbing; it made me uncomfortable. It was not a happy book.
I would like to know what happens to these characters. I will probably read the next book, but I will need something lighter and happier before I do. show less
Audio performance by Robin Miles
4 stars
On a planet with an unstable land mass, there is a race of people who can initiate and control massive geological events. These extremely powerful people are the very ones who are exploited and enslaved. This is not a happy combination.
“For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
That dedication should have given me a clue. This book is so full of anger. It’s inventive. It feels like old mythology. It has many of the tropes of a coming of age adventure fantasy. But, it’s so very different from anything else that I’ve read. And, it’s so very full of anger.
There are three storylines which come together at the show more very end of the book, just before the ‘to be continued’ tagline. The ever changing perspective made the audiobook a little hard to follow although Robin Miles’ performance was excellent. I found it easier to put the story pieces together reading a text copy which included a glossary of terms and background history of this fantasy world. The world building is impressive. The characters are complex. The story captured my attention and kept me in some suspense. It’s disturbing; it made me uncomfortable. It was not a happy book.
I would like to know what happens to these characters. I will probably read the next book, but I will need something lighter and happier before I do. show less
Her world building is stellar. Super unique and revealed at a great pace. I really enjoyed how she showed the power structures put in place to control certain types of citizens evolve over time.
I did however think that the book was a little long and could have been more tightly edited in the middle. In addition, I really struggled with a subplot of the death of a child (not a spoiler -- happens in the second chapter) the same age as my child just being too much for me to handle emotionally.
I did however think that the book was a little long and could have been more tightly edited in the middle. In addition, I really struggled with a subplot of the death of a child (not a spoiler -- happens in the second chapter) the same age as my child just being too much for me to handle emotionally.
I know why it took me so long to read this. But I'm glad I did. I don't have the words to describe the writing. It has a way to hit you where it hurts.
The words before the story starts are very well chosen:
"For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question."
And yet it's not just about that. It's woven into the story but that's not what the story is about. I love that. The writing is superb. Every voice is distinct. And some things I never saw coming.
But oh. So much heartbreak. So much rage. So few moments of joy.
The words before the story starts are very well chosen:
"For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question."
And yet it's not just about that. It's woven into the story but that's not what the story is about. I love that. The writing is superb. Every voice is distinct. And some things I never saw coming.
But oh. So much heartbreak. So much rage. So few moments of joy.
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N. K. Jemisin is an American author and blogger, born in 1972, and based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from Tulane University and her Masters of Education from the University of Maryland College Park. Her work includes numerous short stories, a novella, a triptych, The Inheritance trilogy, Dreamblood series, and The Broken show more Earth trilogy. The Fifth Season is a book in The Inheritance trilogy for which she won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Her other awards include Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice, Fantasy (for The Shadowed Sun); Sense of Gender Award, 2011 (for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, Japanese version); Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice, Fantasy (for The Broken Kingdoms); and the Locus Award, 2010 (First Novel, for The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms). She won the 2017 Nebula Award and the 2018 Hugo Award, Best Novel category for The Stone Sky. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Fifth Season
- Original title
- The Fifth Season
- Original publication date
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- Essun; Syenite; Damaya; Alabaster; Hoa; Schaffa (show all 10); Tonkee; Ykka; Innon; Lerna
- Important places
- the Stillness
- Epigraph*
- Elk tijdperk moet tot een einde komen.
- Dedication
- For all those who have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question
- First words
- Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.
- Quotations
- This is what you must remember: the end of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say "the world has ended," it's usually ... (show all)a lie, because the planet is doing just fine.
But this is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
For the last time. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Tell me," he says, "have you ever heard of something called a moon?"
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- Scalzi, John; Leckie, Ann; Day, Felicia
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- 813.6
- Canonical LCC
- PS3610.E46
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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