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The Broken Earth

by N. K. Jemisin

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The Dying Earth

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A critics' reading. The Fifth Season is often set in the line of Jack Vance's Dying Earth: a far-future world worn down by deep time, whose remnants of lost technology are treated as magic.

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The Broken Earth

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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 familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky.

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