#jemisin

[elvencantation]

But you move to follow her, because neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.

-The Fifth Season, NK Jemisin

[serviceable-mechanism]

the thing about writing a story responding to The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (as an actual published author, not some person on tumblr) is that it's one of the biggest literary called shots imaginable. Yes, it is possible you may create a wonderfully insightful piece of transformative fiction; that's very very true, but if you miss you're fucked. It's saying "I can write and engage with literary themes as well as or better than Ursula K. Le Guin" and indeed, there are many authors who can. But if you can't? If you make that statement about your artistic ability and then fail to follow up? It's fucking embarrassing, and people are going to proceed to drag you for it for years

[isitahairbrush]

Need more book recommendations asap

[samueldelany]

50 Best Black Science Fiction Books - The Bibliofile

Black science fiction books, Afrofuturistic stories, or short stories by Black authors were once unfortunately uncommon, but as of late there have been a lot more fantastic novels to introduce some diversity into this historically homogeneous genre/classification. There’s certainly been more books with wide-spread marketing efforts, which is critical, too. This list contains 50+ of ...

"This list contains 50+ of the best in Black Science Fiction (divided up into Adult and YA titles, with a handful of Children’s / Middle Grade titles added at the end)."

[antriebsloosigkeit]

i bought "the city we became" like one year ago and didnt read it coz most people were saying it was not as good as the broken earth but wow, jemisin can write anything she wants uh

thats the best lovecraftian antiracist remake ive read so far, idk if it qualifies as a spoiler but shit.

[miricastor]

3 chapters into The City We Became and I’m already giddy with excitement imagining how amazing the ending of this book and series will be 🤩

[jmalkki]

Alabaster Madonna 

He has "skin so black it's almost blue", his hair is "dense, tight-curled stuff, the kind of hair that needs to be shaped if it's to look stylish", and he is "whipcord thin".

The Ten-ringed orogene, Alabaster, and son, Corundum, from the Broken Earth series by N.K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin on twitter)​.

Prints are available upon request. 

I swear! There are Culmets works ready, just need to get around posting them!

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[lairofsentinel]

Alabaster - The Ten Ring Orogene The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

"Why do you hate me?. I think you hate me because… I’m someone you can hate. I’m here, I’m handy. But what you really hate is the world. [...] You hate the way we live. The way the world makes us live. Either the Fulcrum owns us, or we have to hide and be hunted down like dogs if we’re ever discovered. Or we become monsters and try to kill everything. Even within the Fulcrum we always have to think about how *they* want us to act. We can never just… be."