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About the Series[]

  • Genres: Historical Fantasy, Myths and Legends, Apocalyptic
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Series Description[]

from Book 1:

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution.

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

It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.

This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Books in order[]

  1. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) (2015)
  2. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) (2016)
  3. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) (2017)

Shorts[]

  • Stone Hunger (2014) A novelette that is unrelated to the novels, but set in the same universe.

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Brief Book Descriptions[]

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) (2015)
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) (2016)
Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request that would seal the fate of the Stillness forever
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) (2017)
This is the way the world ends... for the last time.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.
Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe.
For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

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