"The idea is that it's a story that takes place during the apocalypse, but the world ended when this woman's son was killed."īook Reviews Gorgeous 'Black Future Month' Tracks A Writer's DevelopmentĪ lot of is speaking kind of from my personal places of frustration. "The core of it is that it's a story about a woman one of her children has been killed and the other has been kidnapped, and it effectively starts off with multiple kinds of ends of the world," Jemisin says. The books take place in a world where natural disasters are more common and more destructive, and the people with powers to mitigate those disasters are feared and oppressed. She went on to win the same prize last year, and again this year, making her the only author ever to win the award in three consecutive years - for her Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. In 2016, she became the first African-American writer to win the Hugo Award for best novel.
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