I sing the city
September 28, 2016 1:09 PM   Subscribe

The City Born Great, short fiction by Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin.
posted by Artw (10 comments total) 25 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oooh, N. K. Jemisin! I'm just in the middle of reading her The Fifth Season, which I am absolutely loving. Very much reminds me of Octavia Butler, with that punch-in-the-gut mixture of intimacy and cruelty, suffering and survival.
posted by LMGM at 1:27 PM on September 28, 2016 [5 favorites]


I've only read the first book, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, in N.K. Jemisin's The Inheritance Trilogy. It was brilliant and brutal and heart-breaking. But I needed a break from that trilogy because the first book was so draining emotionally and mentally. This is a good reminder that I need to go back and explore her works again. But after I read Alan Moore's Jerusalem, so probably some time in February of next year.

*sighs*
posted by Fizz at 4:05 PM on September 28, 2016 [4 favorites]


Heh. "BRB after I scale Everest".

Fifth Season is excellent, BTW. But the start of a trilogy again.
posted by Artw at 4:07 PM on September 28, 2016 [1 favorite]


Ugh, too many amazing books, so little time, why must they keep writing, WHY1?!
posted by Fizz at 4:28 PM on September 28, 2016


I'd call this masturbatory, but's that criticizing other famous, older, better written masturbatory works about New York City. Girls, for instance.
posted by Sphinx at 4:44 PM on September 28, 2016


Sphinx, would you be willing to elaborate?
posted by ShawnStruck at 8:14 PM on September 28, 2016


I saw her read this live at the Seattle Public Library this summer. She killed.
posted by RakDaddy at 8:40 PM on September 28, 2016 [1 favorite]


Lovely story. Yankee anime.
posted by Devonian at 12:44 AM on September 29, 2016


Interesting short. The mood reminds me very much of "A Tale of Two Cities" from the DC Sandman series.
posted by theony at 1:24 AM on September 29, 2016


Companion pieces from Edge: Geoffrey West on analogues of biological growth in cities and corporations; and Monica Smith on infrastructure as dialogue.
posted by TreeRooster at 4:59 AM on September 29, 2016 [3 favorites]


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