5/13/2023 0 Comments The fifth season book 2![]() Hartley’s The Go-Between, which begins with, “The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.” The Fifth Season also has its jaunty, deeply heartfelt eye fixed firmly on the past, and on all that has gone wrong to make the world –– the book’s world, and ours –– as muddle-headed and broken as it is. Now, my all-time favorite opening line in fiction comes from L.P. The Fifth Season opens with a prologue entitled, “you are here.” Its first sentence: “Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we?” Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy, and each of the other titles in the series also won the Hugo Award! And if that still isn’t enough to grab your attention, the third title, The Stone Sky, also made off with the Locus and Nebula Awards. Oh, and did I mention? The Fifth Season is book one of N.K. ![]() ![]() Maybe that’s why it won the 2016 Hugo Award. The Fifth Season is one of the finest novels I have read, period. I picked up the lone book on the shelf, toted it home, and read, with increasing awe, one of the finest science fiction novels of my adult life. Over it hung a sign, carved in blasted stone, reading, The Fifth Season. ![]() So, there I was, strolling through the endless corridors of Black Gate’s Indiana compound, when I chanced upon a book shelf I hadn’t noticed before. ![]()
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