The Fifth Season

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016 This is the way the world ends...for the last time. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Broken Kingdoms, The Kingdom of Gods, The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition), Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction), The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella), Dreamblood Duology, The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun, The Broken Earth.