This sets up other books by speculative fiction authors and creators to have their works adapted to television and the big screen. The series has an extremely devoted fan base and has sold millions of copies around the world. Trained from childhood to be up for the task by a societal order called the Guardians, the orogenes hold the world together and stave off disaster, but only as a result of being treated brutally by the Guardians. Key to rebuilding these communities after such destruction are the “orogenes,” individuals gifted with incredible magical power drawn from reservoirs within the Earth itself.
In the first book, The Fifth Season, Jemisin sets readers on an adventure in a “harsh futuristic Earth” on a continent called the Stillness, which endures seasonal apocalyptic events that shake the world and its inhabitants during these “seasons.” It was a bit of a bidding battle to win the sci-fi saga, but with Sony, in partnership with Elizabeth Gabler’s 3000 Pictures, The Broken Earth will be in development to enter into theaters and streaming services with the author adapting the books for the big screen herself.įor those unfamiliar, The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky, all won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, making Jemisin the first person to ever win the distinction three years in a row and the first person to win for all three books in a trilogy. Jemisin has signed a seven-figure deal for her trilogy, The Broken Earth. 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.The rise of Afrofuturism and speculative fiction received a huge boost after Deadline broke the news that N.K.
For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe.
Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo Award-winning The Fifth Season * Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards * A New York Times Notable Book * The inaugural book club pick The Moon will soon return.
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