The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky, N. K. Jemisin
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The Stone Sky

Bestseller

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 08/15/2017

Synopsis

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene 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.

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 Samantha on January 13, 2018

Now THAT is how you do a finale.........more

Goodreads review by Melanie on August 20, 2018

ARC provided by Hachette in exchange for an honest review. 1.) The Fifth Season ★★★★★ 2.) The Obelisk Gate ★★★★ “Some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don't lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.” You guys, I’m spee......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 02, 2019

(4.5?) Way to start the year on a good note! Great end to this series, the pace was better than book two. A fascinating magic system and world building that I will now recommend to fantasy lovers!......more

Goodreads review by Petrik on August 11, 2018

Buddy read with my favorite Orogenes: Melanie & Mary Jemisin has truly outdone herself with this book and trilogy. The Stone Sky, contrary to my expectation, has somehow become one of the best conclusions to a trilogy I’ve ever read, it’s simply extraordinary. My experience reading this trilogy can be......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 20, 2024

Re-Read 1/20/24: I may not say this is one of the best stories I've ever read, any more, BUT I do say that there are few far future Hard-SF/Fantasy books that do as good a job as this when it comes to multiple layers of pain, betrayal, attempted renewal, and redemption. This is true for the personal l......more

Quotes

"The Stone Sky ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good. She's that good."—John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal

"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."—Entertainment Weekly

"[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene] with the Broken Earth."—The New York Times

"Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful."—Kirkus (starred review)

"Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take part."—NPR Books

"Incredible, wildly original . . . [The Stone Sky is] blowing me away."—The Verge

"A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory."—RT Book Reviews (five stars)

"The powerful conclusion to the "Broken Earth" trilogy will please the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed settings, and complex characters."—Library Journal

"[N. K. Jemisin's] books have abstracted real-life race issues in a way that serves to magnify the truth."—Washington Post

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