![]() ![]() Strange remnants of dead civilisations, called Obelisks, float through a sky with no moon in it. The world of the Stillness is one of constant turmoil: The ground beneath people's feet is treacherously prone to quakes, to the point where everyone speaks of the Evil Earth. ![]() The gratitude and love I feel for these books, and for what The Stone Sky adds to the triptych, is staggering. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate, like The Fifth Season before it, won the Hugo Award for Best Novel last weekend, just in time to pave the way for The Stone Sky with well-deserved acclaim.īut the fact that The Stone Sky sticks the landing of this astonishing trilogy with timeliness and rigor is the smallest, simplest thing I have to say about it. How?Īmal El-Mohtar is the Hugo Award-winning author of The Honey Month and the editor of Goblin Fruit, an online poetry magazine.Ĭoncluding a trilogy is a tricky business - not least when its first two installments have been justly honored with the highest awards in genre fiction. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Stone Sky Author N. ![]()
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