A groundbreaking fantasy trilogy set on a volatile continent where orogenes can control seismic energy and are enslaved and feared. The series follows Essun's search for her daughter across a dying world, revealing the catastrophic history of oppression and the terrible choices that created the Fifth Seasons, while experimenting with second-person narration and achieving science fantasy's most formally ambitious and emotionally devastating arc.
In a world called the Stillness where catastrophic geological events called Fifth Seasons periodically destroy civilization, three women an orogene who can control seismic energy, a young trainee in a brutal training program, and a traveling orogene navigate a world that fears and exploits those with their abilities, as a new and final Season begins. Told in second person for one thread and switching perspectives, the novel is formally bold and emotionally devastating. A Hugo Award winner.
Essun and her daughter Nassun are separated across the dying world of the Stillness as the apocalyptic Fifth Season continues; Essun seeks her daughter with a community of survivors while Nassun's powers develop under the tutelage of a man whose true intentions become increasingly ominous. The second Broken Earth novel deepens both the world's mythology and the emotional devastation of its central family tragedy. A Hugo Award winner.
The conclusion of the Broken Earth trilogy brings Essun and Nassun toward a final confrontation at the literal center of the world's crisis, as the truth about the obelisk network, the Stone Eaters, and the world's original catastrophe is finally revealed. The trilogy concludes with full emotional force, making good on the devastating setup of its predecessors. A Hugo Award winner for the third consecutive year, making Jemisin the first author to achieve that distinction.