Any N.K. Jemisin fans who haven’t read this short story collection, I highly recommend it!
In the introduction, she discusses her initial reluctance to write short stories, and how she came to see the value, as both art and a place to explore what becomes longer fiction. (It’s hard to miss the beginnings of some of her later work peeking through these pieces!)
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread You might like N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky). I should warn that there are also younger heroes, but if you want a story about a middle-aged woman who has seen some shit and is tired, so very very tired, of trying to save the world for people who hate her...
(also, Jemisin's prose is on par with Dylan Thomas, would be the other reason to read it)
The World Wasn't Ready For You is #JustinCKey's first book. It's a short story collection, from a major publisher. This is basically unheard of. Big publishers rarely publish collections, and when they do, it's almost always after a string of extremely successful novels:
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But "Black horror" isn't merely parables about racism. In the deft hands of these writers - and now, Key - the stories are horror in which Blackness is a fact, sometimes a central one, a fact is ever a complication, limiting how the characters move through space, interact with authority, and relate to one another.
Just finished The Broken Earth series from N. K. Jemisin.
Such a blast !
I'm a little bit lazy to said why and how much I loved this reading in english, but, yeah, READ IT people ! It's SO good.
A new series, folks. I watch a lot of movies and TV shows and I read a lot of books. So I'd like to do some reviews here. Not so much in the direction of good and bad and "x out of ten" voting, but rather under the aspect of what parts are interesting or unique in the sci-fi and fantasy world. ...
One of the most famous SciFi authors, Arthur C. Clark, once said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." This characterizes the novel I'd like to discuss today pretty well. Let's talk about "The Fifth Season"...
I saw some of his art online and thought it looked like “Invisible Hands” from Liquid Television, which I LOVED. Same artist! This didn’t have quite the same level of twisted, creepiness as that animated series, but I was so happy to find his work in comic form. There’s more too.
Does well making up for the first book’s faults: less tortured metaphors of an embodied NYC, more story and world building. Still, none of the five boroughs/characters has a chance to really develop. I’d rather just a low key hang with them all rather than the multiversal drama. I love Jemisin, but this series is my least favorite. She really did rescue it with this second installment though.