The City Born Great, N. K. Jemisin
The City Born Great, N. K. Jemisin
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The City Born Great
A Tor.com Original

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Landon Woodson

Unabridged: 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Urban

Synopsis

“Landon Woodson's captivating singing opens this stand-alone short story...Woodson's agile and engaging narration makes listeners wary of the ominous threats and feel all the anticipation for the battle to come." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

The City Born Great is a Tor.com Original.

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 Elena on July 15, 2017

“Each city must emerge on its own or die trying.” This story made me realize something about speculative fiction. The tale started and went on, and, for the first few pages, there were no fantasy or science fiction elements in sight. But I was already into the story, I was attached to the......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on April 18, 2017

2.5 stars. One of the 2017 Hugo nominees, in the short story category. This story is free online here at Tor.com. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: I was delighted to see a new online fantasy short story on Tor.com by the talented N.K. Jemisin. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t to my tas......more

Goodreads review by Althea on March 16, 2017

One of my Hugo nominees, short story, 2016. ____ It's the third time this has happened: I heard the author read this at a public event, and for a few minutes couldn't figure out why it sounded so awfully familiar upon reading it, when I *knew* it was a just-published story. It's a wonderful story. It......more

Awards

  • Hugo Award - Nominee
  • Locus Awards - Nominee
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