WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE NEBULA AWARD 2018 WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY 2018 An Amazon Best Book of the Year
The incredible conclusion to the record-breaking triple Hugo award-winning trilogy that began with the The Fifth Season
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast 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.
Praise for this trilogy:
'Amazing' Ann Leckie
'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal
'Beautiful' Nnedi Okorafor
'Astounding' NPR
'Brilliant' Washington Post
The Broken Earth trilogy begins withThe Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk Gateand concludes with The Stone Sky - out now.
The Stone Sky is effectively the Book of Hoa, and it is a masterpiece in storytelling. The trilogy builds up to this deep, personal, layered examination of personhood vis-a-vis colonization and genocide. It presents a powerful reflection on the unrelenting greed and desire that underpins dominance, the myths we build to justify that, the choices we make to execute that arrogance, and how they haunt us in our collective memory.
(I'll have to take a break from Fantasy for a while, so that I don't judge the next book too harshly. Very few books -- Fantasy or otherwise -- can live up to Jemisin's writing and world-building here.)
