The World We Make, N. K. Jemisin
The World We Make, N. K. Jemisin
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The World We Make
A Novel

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 12 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 11/01/2022

Synopsis

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.

All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and "law and order" may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside. 

In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction.

N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, which began with The City We Became and concludes with The World We Make, is a masterpiece of speculative fiction from one of the most important writers of her generation.
  The Great Cities DuologyThe City We Became
The World We Make  

About N. K. Jemisin

N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards.Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are available from Orbit Books. Jemisin is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.N. K.'s stories include The City Born Great and The Fifth Season.

Reviews

Goodreads review by P. on November 27, 2022

What an amazing sequel! Started this book and could not put it down. Jemisin turns Lovecraftian cosmic horror on its head to explore the modern politics of one of the world’s greatest cities. And it was damn fun. Big up NYC!!!......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on February 12, 2025

If N.K. Jemisin has a million fans; then I'm one of them. If N.K. Jemisin has one fan, then I'm THAT ONE. If N.K. Jemisin has no fans, that means I'm dead. In all seriousness, I bow down in awe of N.K. Jemisin's genius, and will read anything and everything she writes forevermore. She is an auto-buy a......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on April 21, 2025

I really did not enjoy the aspect of this book where the author states at the end that "...the Great Cities series to be a metaphor for the COVID-19 pandemic, nor for my country’s swan dive into Deep Fascism (we’ve always been swimming in the fashy shallows)." But nevertheless, it is a solid sequel a......more

Goodreads review by Dima on March 18, 2023

First of all, I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an early copy of the book in return for an honest review. As this is part 2 of a duology, you can also find my review of part 1 on Goodreads. The story continues to follow the conflict between the newborn New York a......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on June 13, 2023

Maybe it's because I live in New York myself, but this was hard to read at times because of how closely it mirrors reality. This was Jemisin's pandemic book and I think you can feel that. The City We Became is equally political, but in a hopeful and empowering sort of way. The World We Make is still......more

Quotes

"[Audiobook narrator Robin] Miles gives a masterful performance...she smoothly portrays the distinctive variations in the boroughs’ dialects and accents, making each vibrant and distinctive. Smart use of technical effects renders the invading city of R’lyeh alien and unnatural; Miles’s voicework makes it even more chilling. Long after the final battle for eight million souls has been fought, Miles’s dynamic and powerful performance will linger in listeners’ minds."—AudioFile

"It's a glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York. It's inclusive in all the best ways, and manages to contain both Borges and Lovecraft in its fabric, but the unique voice and viewpoint are Jemisin's alone."—Neil Gaiman on The City We Became

"The City We Became takes a broad-shouldered stand on the side of sanctuary, family and love. It's a joyful shout, a reclamation and a call to arms."—The New York Times

"The City We Became is a masterpiece of eldritch urban fantasy."—Buzzfeed News

"Jemisin's fantastical stories are anchored in complex societal systems and fully-imagined new worlds-all with fault lines lying in wait-that aim to help us better understand our own."—TIME on The City We Became

"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."—Entertainment Weekly on The City We Became

"A love letter, a celebration and an expression of hope and belief that a city and its people can and will stand up to darkness, will stand up to fear, and will, when called to, stand up for each other."


— NPR on The City We Became

"Thrillingly expansive without ever becoming abstract or high-flown."—The Los Angeles Times on The City We Became

"Three consecutive Hugo Awards and a cover blurb from Neil Gaiman -yes, it's time for you to pick up a novel by Jemisin, whose speculative fiction has a degree of inclusivity rare in the science-fiction world."—The Washington Post on The City We Became

"As always, Jemisin's writing is visionary and immersive...[Jemisin is] a science-fiction/fantasy GOAT."—GQ on The City We Became

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