Series
The Broken Earth
N. K. Jemisin · 3 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 2014–2017
N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is set on the Stillness, a single supercontinent wracked every few centuries by civilization-ending climate catastrophes called Fifth Seasons. It follows orogenes, people born with the power to move earth and quell earthquakes, who are trained and controlled by the state even as they are feared and despised. The Fifth Season, the opening volume, traces three women revealed to be the same person at different stages of her life, setting up the two sequels that follow her search for her daughter after an orogene shatters the continent.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
The Broken Earth at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s5
Shape
3 novels · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:fantasyecological collapsesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifieddarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Stone Hungerdarkest
- The Fifth Seasonbrightest · calmest
- The Obelisk Gatemost intense