The City We Became (Signed Book)

by N. K. Jemisin

Overview

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.

Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got six.

But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs in the halls of power, threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

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 Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)

The Broken Earth
The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky


How Long 'til Black Future Month? (short story collection)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316539760
Publisher:	Orbit
Publication date:	03/24/2020
Edition description:	Signed Edition
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	1,432
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

N. K. Jemisin is the first author in history to win three consecutive Best Novel Hugo Awards, all for her Broken Earth trilogy. Her work has also won the Nebula, Locus, and Goodreads Choice Awards. She has been a reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and an instructor for the Clarion and Clarion West writing workshops. In her spare time she is a gamer and gardener, and she is also single-handedly responsible for saving the world from King Ozzymandias, her dangerously intelligent ginger cat, and his phenomenally destructive sidekick Magpie.

Editorial Reviews

"N. K. Jemisin has captured the living, breathing soul of New York City in a way that only a writer of her skill can. The City We Became is a masterpiece that plays by no rules-beautiful, musical, joyfully weird, and as impossibly fantastical as it is deeply true."— Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M

"The City We Became is a raucous delight, a joyride, a call-to-arms, a revolution with plenty of dancing. Eat your heart out, Lovecraft."— Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January

"Without a doubt, one of the most brilliant books I have ever had the honor of reading. An homage to New York City, packed with all its love and harshness, and so incredibly inventive that I felt my own imagination and the boundaries of what fantasy can be expand."— S. A. Chakraborty, author of City of Brass

"Arguably the most important speculative writer of her generation...She's that good."— John Scalzi, Wall Street Journal on The Stone Sky

"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 on The Stone Sky

"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 on The Stone Sky

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

"N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is the best new speculative fiction I've read in a long time . . . Intricate [and] captivating."— Literary Hub

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

"It's honestly difficult to describe just how good N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is . . . if you don't read this trilogy, you'll regret it."— Syfy Wire

"Reshapes the face of epic fantasy."— B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog

"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

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

From the Publisher

10/01/2019

Every city has a soul, and in this new work, poundingly exciting New York City has six, as suggested by the six newborn avatars about to come to its rescue. An ancient evil is rising up, ready to level the city. The start of a new series from the New York Times best-selling author and winner of multiple awards, including three consecutive Hugos.

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