#LibraryFinds: A Year Later and ‘The Stone Sky’ Still Moves Us

The Pertinacious Champion of Fantasy and Sci-Fi, N.K. Jemisin, is back with a new short story collection out this week, How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?. She’s had a whirlwind year: in addition to completing her book, she won her third Best Novel Hugo Award for The Stone Sky, and has moved on to adapting The Fifth Season into a TNT TV show. During all of that, she has been open about the passing of her mother, and how that impacted the themes of her work. Next year, she’ll be featured in A People’s Future of the United States from Penguin/Random House and that’s just in February. Who knows what other goodies she’ll announce by the end of 2019. Jemisin is the tour de force that’s showing all of us the full potential of #BlackGirlMagic. The final installment of The Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky is the jewel in her crown. While awaiting the new collection, I turned my attention back to The Stone Sky. The World Revealed At her heart of hearts, Jemisin has described herself as a world-builder — and it shows. The first two books, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate are full of characters and folklore. Jemisin crafts a world that engulfs the reader in the environment. I constantly found myself wanting to tear away from the main character, Essun, and ask how did we get here? Tell me more about the history, the people, the world! This mystery of how the Stillness came into being propels you through the first book and gently teases you through the second book. While you wan…