And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.This collection of short stories by Jemisin, the first person to win the Hugo award for best novel three years in a row (most recently for The Stone Sky, 2017), eloquently develops a series of passionately felt themes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time.
So, obviously, you need to read this new short story collection’ Jemisin is a powerhouse of speculative fiction. ‘One line from has tattooed itself on my mind, a sort of manifesto for her ongoing work and all the fiction I love: ‘Now I am bolder, and angrier, and more joyful.’ I felt, after reading these stories, that I was too’ ‘The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy’ ‘Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold’
‘An important collection by a rising star’
‘The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation… Jemisin seems able to do just about everything’ Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection. Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.
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