Editor’s note: Joel is reading his way through the finalists for the 2012 Nebula Award for best sci-fi/fantasy novel. Read his introduction here. N.K. Jemisin has made a name for herself in the fantasy field by bucking the trend. In 2011, just as gritty quasi-European-set fantasies like A Song of Ice and Fire and The […]
From The Time Machine to Kirk and Uhura‘s unprecedented kiss, speculative fiction has often concerned itself with breaking barriers and exploring issues of race, inequality, and injustice. The fantastical elements of genre, from alien beings to magical ones, allow writers to confront controversial issues in metaphor, granting them a subversive power that often goes unheralded. On this, the […]
The Nebula Awards are one of my favorite dorky events of the year.
At WorldCon 76 in San Jose, N.K. Jemisin made history, winning her third consecutive Hugo Award for The Stone Sky, the third book in The Broken Earth trilogy. She is the first person to win three Best Novel Hugo awards in a row, and the first to win top honors for every book in a […]
Since she exploded onto the SF/F scene with her lauded 2010 debut The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin has wasted no time, cranking out two sequels, an unrelated duology, and one of the best books of 2015 (The Fifth Season), not to mention numerous short stories and novellas. If you’ve yet to encounter her work, […]