Showing results by author "N. K. Jemisin" in Genre Fiction

This is the way the world ends, for the last time. 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.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

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.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

En Manhattan, un joven estudiante de posgrado sale del tren y se da cuenta de que no recuerda quién es, de dónde viene ni su nombre. Pero sí que es capaz de sentir el latir del corazón de la ciudad, ver su historia y percibir su poder. En el Bronx, la directora lenape de una galería de arte encuentra unos extraños grafitis que adornan toda la ciudad, tan maravillosos y poderosos que se podría decir que la pintura la llama, literalmente. En Brooklyn, una madre y política descubre que oye las canciones de la ciudad, que resuenan al ritmo de los tacones de sus Louboutin.

Jede Stadt hat eine Seele. Manche so alt wie die Mythen. Andere so jung und ungestüm wie Kinder. Und New York City? Hat gleich mehr als eine. Gerade erst erwacht und so unterschiedlich, wie das Leben in New York, müssen sich die Wächter der Stadt zusammenschließen, um sie vor dem Grauen zu schützen, das unter ihr lauert. Städte sind lebendig. Sagt man so. Doch das ist mehr als nur ein Sprichwort und wenn eine Stadt erwacht, sucht sie sich einen Avatar, der sie verkörpert. Doch im Fall von New York ist etwas schief gelaufen.

Gujaareh, la città dei Sogni, è afflitta dal dominio imperiale del Protettorato Kisuati. Una città in cui l'unica legge era la pace ora conosce solo violenza e oppressione... e incubi. Una mortale e misteriosa pestilenza perseguita i cittadini di Gujaareh, condannando gli infetti a morire durante il sonno tra urla strazianti. Assediata da sogni oscuri e crudeli signori, la città e tutta la sua gente languiscono nell'ardente desiderio di sollevarsi, ma Gujaareh conosce la pace da troppo tempo. Qualcuno dovrà mostrare loro la strada.