The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Series #3)

by N. K. Jemisin Narrated by Robin Miles

Overview

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.

For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

" The Stone Sky ... establishes [Jemisin] as arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation... It's that good. She's that good."— John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal

"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."— Entertainment Weekly

"[N. K. Jemisin] has pretty well conquered [the epic fantasy scene] with the Broken Earth."— The New York Times

"Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful."— Kirkus (starred review)

"Vivid characters, a tautly constructed plot, and outstanding worldbuilding meld into an impressive and timely story of abused, grieving survivors fighting to fix themselves and save the remnants of their shattered home."— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The depth and breadth of Jemisin's achievement with this trilogy is geologic. These books are a revolution in which I want to take part."— NPR Books

"Incredible, wildly original . . . [ The Stone Sky is] blowing me away."— The Verge

"A real tour de force . . . one of the best fantasy trilogies in recent memory."— RT Book Reviews (five stars)

"The powerful conclusion to the "Broken Earth" trilogy will please the author's many fans with its fully developed world, detailed settings, and complex characters."— Library Journal

"[N. K. Jemisin's] books have abstracted real-life race issues in a way that serves to magnify the truth."— Washington Post

"Intricate and extraordinary."— New York Times on The Fifth Season

"[A]n ambitious book, with a shifting point of view, and a protagonist whose full complexity doesn't become apparent till toward the end... Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy."— Guardian on The Fifth Season

"Astounding... Jemisin maintains a gripping voice and an emotional core that not only carries the story through its complicated setting, but sets things up for even more staggering revelations to come."— NPR Books on The Fifth Season

"Jemisin's graceful prose and gritty setting provide the perfect backdrop for this fascinating tale of determined characters fighting to save a doomed world."— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Fifth Season

"A must-buy...breaks uncharted ground."— Library Journal (Starred review) on The Fifth Season

"Jemisin might just be the best world builder out there right now.... [She] is a master at what she does."— RT Book Reviews (Top Pick!) on The Fifth Season

"Stunning and well constructed ... a book that imbues itself with deeper meaning the more it unfolds and reveals itself, and by the end, I saw everything in a new light. I knew Jemisin was talented, being a huge fan of her Inheritance and Dreamblood books, but here she employs heretofore unseen skills."— Lightspeed on The Fifth Season

"Brilliant...gorgeous writing and unexpected plot twists."— Washington Post

"One of the most celebrated new voices in epic fantasy."— Salon.com

Kirkus Reviews

★ 2017-07-04
Jemisin concludes her Broken Earth trilogy (The Obelisk Gate, 2016, etc.), about a vengeful Earth whose tectonic instability can be controlled by the despised and feared orogenes.Slowly turning to stone as a result of her contact with the Obelisk Gate, Essun nevertheless must repeat that contact to magically grab the long-lost Moon, assuaging the anger of the Earth and ending the devastating Seasons that rock the planet. Meanwhile, her estranged daughter, Nassun, has her own plan to take the Gate for herself and use it to destroy the humans who have responded viciously to the earth shaking and earth-quelling powers of her orogene brethren. Threaded throughout is the story of the stone eater Hoa, who explains his origins from several millennia earlier and how his own struggle to gain his freedom led to the Earth losing the Moon in the first place. Jemisin continues to break the heart with her sensitive, cleareyed depictions of a beyond-dysfunctional family and the extraordinarily destructive force that is prejudice. She wrestles with moral issues at an extreme level: obviously, the cruel discipline and mutilation that orogenes are subjected to violate all standards of decency, and not only is it evil, it's simply the height of idiocy to exterminate the only people capable of calming a constantly tumultuous landscape. But how does one compassionately instill the appropriate discipline in a child who can also casually and inadvertently destroy a village? Can love survive such training? Jemisin deliberately refuses to provide easy answers: they're simply not available, in this world or ours. Painful and powerful.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170033355
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Series:	N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Series
Edition description:	Unabridged

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