N. K. Jemisin
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How Long ’til Black Future Month?
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Shayna Small
- Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(12103 ratings)
Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.
“Marvelous and wide-ranging.” — Los Angeles Times“Gorgeous” — NPR Books“Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.” — Entertainment Weekly
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.
... Read moreMass Effect(tm) Andromeda: Initiation
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Fryda Wolff
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
Lieutenant Cora Harper joined the Systems Alliance to develop and enhance her powerful biotic talents. She was assigned to the asari commando unit Talein’s Daughters, where she honed her abilities to become a skilled and deadly huntress.
Returning to Earth, Cora finds herself a stranger among other humans, and joins the Andromeda Initiative as Alec Ryder’s second-in-command. The mission will send 100,000 colonists on a one-way, 600-year-long journey into the unknown. When essential–and dangerous–tech is stolen, Cora is assigned to recover it before it can be used against the Initiative, and end the mission before it can begin.
... Read moreThe Awakened Kingdom
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: February 04, 2020
- Language: English
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4.01(5330 ratings)
The long awaited sequel to the Inheritance trilogy — a novella by award winning author N. K. Jemisin where a godling must struggle to grow in the shadow of her parents.
Some truths must be learned the hard way. . .
As the first new godling born in thousands of years — and the heir presumptive to Sieh the Trickster — Shill’s got big shoes to fill. She’s well on her way when she defies her parents and sneaks off to the mortal realm, which is no place for an impressionable young god. In short order she steals a demon’s grandchild, gets herself embroiled in a secret underground magical dance competition, and offends her oldest and most powerful sibling.
But for Eino, the young Darren man whom Shill has befriended, the god-child’s silly games are serious business. Trapped in an arranged marriage and prohibited from pursuing his dreams, he has had enough. He will choose his own fate, even if he must betray a friend in the process — and Shill might just have to grow up faster than she thinks.
This novella, The Awakened Kingdom takes place after the events of The Kingdom of Gods and will also be included in both the print and ebook ominbus of The Inheritance Trilogy in 12/14.
... Read moreThe Broken Kingdoms
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
- Length: 11 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 23, 2018
- Language: English
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4.13(27629 ratings)
A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger’s past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree’s guest is at the heart of it. . .
... Read moreThe City Born Great
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Landon Woodson
- Length: 46 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 12, 2020
- Language: English
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3.83(2895 ratings)
“Landon Woodson’s captivating singing opens this stand-alone short story…Woodson’s agile and engaging narration makes listeners wary of the ominous threats and feel all the anticipation for the battle to come.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.
Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife…and how well he can learn to sing the city’s mighty song.
The City Born Great is a Tor.com Original.
... Read moreThe City We Became
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 24, 2020
- Language: English
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3.9(42827 ratings)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn’t remember who he is, where he’s from, or even his own name. But he can sense the beating heart of the city, see its history, and feel its power.
In the Bronx, a Lenape gallery director discovers strange graffiti scattered throughout the city, so beautiful and powerful it’s as if the paint is literally calling to her.
In Brooklyn, a politician and mother finds she can hear the songs of her city, pulsing to the beat of her Louboutin heels.
And they’re not the only ones.
Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She’s got six.
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)
“A glorious fantasy.” –Neil Gaiman
The Fifth Season
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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4.32(174325 ratings)
This is the way the world ends…for the last time.
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.
Listen to the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
The Fifth Season
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 04, 2015
- Language: English
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4.31(239308 ratings)
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this “intricate and extraordinary” Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
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.
Read the first book in the critically acclaimed, three-time Hugo award-winning trilogy by NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
... Read moreThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
- Length: 11 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 16, 2018
- Language: English
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3.89(58470 ratings)
After her mother’s mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother’s death and her family’s bloody history.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate — and gods and mortals — are bound inseparably together.
... Read moreThe Killing Moon
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 12 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.94(14797 ratings)
Assassin priests, mad kings, and the goddess of death collide in the first book of the Dreamblood Duology by NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin.
The city burned beneath the Dreaming Moon.
In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers — the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe . . . and kill those judged corrupt.
But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh’s great temple, Ehiru — the most famous of the city’s Gatherers — must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering dreamers in the goddess’ name, stalking its prey both in Gujaareh’s alleys and the realm of dreams. Ehiru must now protect the woman he was sent to kill — or watch the city be devoured by war and forbidden magic.
... Read moreThe Kingdom of Gods
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Casaundra Freeman
- Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 30, 2018
- Language: English
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3.98(19771 ratings)
Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.
For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri’s ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war.Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family’s interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.
As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom — which even gods fear — is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens?
Includes a never before seen story set in the world of the Inheritance Trilogy. ... Read more
The Obelisk Gate
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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4.31(103022 ratings)
Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *
Essun’s missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this “magnificent” Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR)
The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night.
Essun — once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger — has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.
Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power — and her choices will break the world.
N. K. Jemisin’s award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
The Shadowed Sun
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 17 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 12, 2012
- Language: English
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4.27(7760 ratings)
In the final book of NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology, a priestess and an exiled prince must join together to free the city of dreams from imperial rule.
Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep. Trapped between dark dreams and cruel overlords, the people yearn to rise up — but Gujaareh has known peace for too long.
Someone must show them the way.
Hope lies with two outcasts: the first woman ever allowed to join the dream goddess’ priesthood and an exiled prince who longs to reclaim his birthright. Together, they must resist the Kisuati occupation and uncover the source of the killing dreams. . . before Gujaareh is lost forever.
... Read moreThe Stone Sky
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.35(86617 ratings)
“Extraordinary.” – New York Times on The Fifth Season
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.
The Stone Sky
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 15, 2017
- Language: English
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4.35(122425 ratings)
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.
... Read moreThe World We Make
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrator: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.18(4064 ratings)
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.
All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading–and destroying the entire universe in the process–the mysterious capital “E” Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new candidate for mayor wielding the populist rhetoric of gentrification, xenophobia, and “law and order” may have what it takes to change the very nature of New York itself and take it down from the inside.
In order to defeat him, and the Enemy who holds his purse strings, the avatars will have to join together with the other Great Cities of the world in order to bring her down for good and protect their world from complete destruction.
N.K. Jemisin’s Great Cities Duology, which began with The City We Became and concludes with The World We Make, is a masterpiece of speculative fiction from one of the most important writers of her generation.
The World We Make