The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, book 3) N. K. Jemisin

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, book 3) N. K. Jemisin

Comments

[gehayi]

Does it all end in failure and destruction? Because if it does, I'll skip the third book. I'm tired of downer endings.

[james_davis_nicoll]

It ends in what Tolkien would call eucatastrophe.

[gehayi]

*looks up the word* Ah, that's a relief. Thank you.

[thewayne]

Boy, I'll bet you loved the dickens out of Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem series! ;-)

[gehayi]

Never heard of it.

[james_davis_nicoll]

The first volume won a Hugo. Recently. Personally, I liked the early bits but was derailed by "Alpha Centauri does not work that way."

[jamoche]

Also the very early SF notion that all life-bearing planets are Earthlike, so that's why aliens will want them. Especially since those aliens live on a place with more extremes than even Doc Smith ever dreamed of - if they could survive there, there's got to be another one of our planets that will do.

[armiphlage]

Same here; but with our host's comment, I shall give it a try.

[kithrup]

btw: Jemisin says it's fantasy, and is definitely not earth. This must have been some surprise to Tor, who'd labeled the first book SF.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Orbit, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

When a book wins the Hugo, it's publisher retroactively becomes Tor; this is known as the Ancilliary Principle...

[daidoji_gisei]

I laughed.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad!

[kithrup]

Me too :).

[thewayne]

I started reading the second book without having read the first as part of this year's Hugo packet. I didn't care for her world building, and didn't like the second person narrative. I've been told that is a growing thing, I hope it dies a rapid death. I've seen it done well, I just don't think this was it.

[james_davis_nicoll]

The third book explains that stylistic choice.

[thewayne]

While that's fine and dandy, and I'm glad that it's explained, I don't want to slog through two books that I feel that I won't like for that payoff.  There are far too many other books out there for me to read.

[(Anonymous)]

So does this wind up the series properly?

-awesomeaud

[james_davis_nicoll]

Yes.

[ba_munronoe]

So if SF often takes the form of fantasies of political agency, this is a fantasy of geological agency?