#broken earth trilogy

[augustinajosefina]

A request

Please suggest books to me! Preferably in the glove kink/lesbian space atrocities, urban fantasy or dark academia genres but I'll happily try any SF/fantasy at least once.

So far I've read and loved:

Before 2023

The Imperial Radch (Ancillary Justice/Sword/Mercy) - Ann Leckie

Jean le Flambeur (The Quantum Thief/The Fractal Prince/The Causal Angel) - Hannu Rajaniemi

The Windup Girl/The Water Knife - Paolo Bagicalupi

Memory of Water/The City of Woven Streets - Emmi Itäranta

2023

The Locked Tomb (Gideon/Harrow/Nona the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir

The Masquerade (Traitor/Monster/Tyrant Baru Cormorant) - Seth Dickinson

Teixcalaan series (A Memory Called Empire/A Desolation Called Peace) - Arkady Martine

Machineries of Empire (Ninefox Gambit/Raven Stratagem/Revenant Gun/Hexarchate Stories) - Yoon Ha Lee

The Murderbot Diaries (All Systems Red to System Collapse) - Martha Wells

The Broken Earth (The Fifth Season/The Obelisk Gate/The Stone Sky) - N. K. Jemisin

Klara And The Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Xuya universe (The Citadel of Weeping Pearls/The Tea Master and the Detective/Seven of Infinities plus short stories) - Aliette de Bodard

This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

The Goblin Emperor/The Witness for the Dead/Grief of Stones - Katherine Addison

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

2024

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab

The Craft Sequence (Three Parts Dead/Two Serpents Rise/Full Fathom Five/Last First Snow/Four Roads Cross/Ruin of Angels) - Max Gladstone

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - R. F. Kuang

The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling

Last Exit - Max Gladstone

Dead Country - Max Gladstone

Read and liked:

The Moonday Letters - Emmi Itäranta

Great Cities (The City We Became/The World We Make) - N. K. Jemisin

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz

Dead Djinn universe (A Master of Djinn/The Haunting of Tram Car 015/A Dead Djinn in Cairo/The Angel of Khan el-Khalili) - P. Djèlí Clark

Even Though I Knew the End - C. L. Polk

Station Eternity - Mur Lafferty

The Mythic Dream - Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe

Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic/A Gathering of Shadows/A Conjuring of Light/Fragile Threads of Power) - V. E. Schwab

The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley

Ninth House/Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo

Machine - Elizabeth Bear

Our Wives Under the Sea - Julia Armfield

She Is A Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran

Was uncertain about:

Light From Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki

The Kaiju Preservation Society - John Scalzi

Paladin's Grace - T. Kingfisher

The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune

In the Vanishers Palace - Aliette de Bodard

And read and disliked:

To Be Taught, if Fortunate - Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo

(My pride insists I add that I have, in fact, read other books as well. Just to be clear.)

#books #lesbian space atrocities #imperial radch #ann leckie #locked tomb series #the masquerade #baru cormorant #seth dickinson #teixcalaan series #arkady martine #machineries of empire #yoon ha lee #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin #tamsyn muir #this is how you lose the time war #the goblin emperor #katherine addison #aliette de bodard #annalee newitz #paolo bagicalupi #some desperate glory #emily tesh #hannu rajaniemi #a master of djinn #p djeli clark #max gladstone #craft sequence

[bunabi]

Hey I can finally yell that I had the pleasure of working with Green Ronin Publishing on the cover for the Fifth Season RPG — set in the world of the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin!

It's already been fully backed, but please consider supporting the project by reserving a copy of your own via Backerkit!

#im over the moon and my head will not deflate #i sizzle as i write this: #my art #broken earth trilogy #fifth season rpg

[nct616]

hoahoahoahoahoahoahoahoa

#nk jemisin #nkjemisin #the broken earth #hoa #broken earth trilogy #fanart #nk jemisin fanart #I keep forgetting to post shit on here sorry to all ≈4.3 of you who may care #the fifth season #the obelisk gate #the stone sky

[haveyoureadthisseries-poll]

#tumblr polls #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin

[fantasybooktournament]

#lord of the rings #broken earth trilogy #the broken earth #nk jemisin #n.k. jemisin #jrr tolkien #lotr #fantasy book tournament #polls #round 4

[syeniites]

tfw you have a crush on the woman who destroyed your hometown and now she stops by the infirmary where you work every day to bicker incomprehensibly with her ex-metamour-slash-baby-daddy who also triggered the apocalypse while he slowly turns to stone and is eaten by a rock person. but sometimes you just gotta shoot your shot ig

#broken earth trilogy #the obelisk gate #essun #alabaster tenring #lerna

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Tonkee is transgender and wlw, and uses she/her pronouns!

#tonkee innovator dibars #broken earth trilogy #the fifth season #tumblr polls #fandom polls #poll #transgender #she/her #books #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character #nk jemisin #finished

[lottieurl]

The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin

#the stone sky #broken earth trilogy #thimking. #words

[dykerightsmp3]

this is Alabaster and Syenite brokenearthtrilogy to me

#broken earth trilogy #elle.txt #lit: broken earth trilogy

[fantasiadelux]

#the fifth season #nk jemisin #science fiction #fantasy #scifi #broken earth trilogy #hugo awards #syenite #innon #the broken earth #the stone sky #the obelisk gate #damaya #essun #nassun #fanfic illustration #luxmeteora #luxnieve

[twicetolivetwicetodie]

Propaganda:

The White Tower (The Wheel of Time):

You are an Accepted in the White Tower in hopes of becoming an Aes Sedai. You became an Accepted by going through a test through the use of a magical device that emotionally traumatized you by forcing you to go through scenarios where you have to make a decision to walk away from people in your life that need your help. You are told some women never return from this test and are lost forever. The Aes Sedai do not go back for them as they do not know exactly how these devices work. A good portion of your teachers might be evil but you don't know which ones they are and who you can trust as it could be any of them. The Aes Sedai deny the existence of an evil faction of them even exists.

The Black Tower (The Wheel of Time):

You are a male channeler, doomed to go insane and destroy everything around you. The entire world despises your very existence. You have very few options. You could be captured by the Aes Sedai and Gentled (a process which is essentially a magical lobotomy, which causes you to lose your will to live). You could end up being murdered by the people around you. Or you could join the Black Tower, which is essentially a magical military academy created by the Dragon Reborn himself. Your purpose there is to learn every possible way to kill with the One Power so you can be useful at the Last Battle against the forces of the Shadow. A few problems though. The principal is literally working for the devil. You have a very high probability of being turned to the Shadow against your will with magic. If you run away and you're caught, you will be murdered and your head will be displayed on a tree in the middle of the schoolyard.

Clerres (Realm of the Elderlings):

You are a prophet, able to see into the future via your dreams. Clerres' purpose is to train you how to interpret those dreams and visions for the betterment of humanity in order to put the world on a better path. Or so you think. The Servants who run the school have their own agenda which isn't what you initially thought it was. The White Prophet, the Chosen One, is who they say it is and no one else, even if you are 100% certain it is you. They do this so they can set the world on the path that they think it should be and not necessarily what is for the best. If you fight against them, they will torture you into submission. They are intent on inducting you into their breeding program that they have for all their students. You have a high likelihood of being sexually assaulted by one of your teachers. If you run away, and are caught, you will be murdered via parasitic worms.

The Fulcrum (Broken Earth Trilogy):

You are an orogene, a user of powerful earth magic that has the capability to rip the world apart. The entire world despises your very existence. You are ripped from your family and treated as less than human because of your magic ability (by your own family as well). You are harshly treated by your Guardian and let known that your only worth as a person is what your magic can do for the world (while being kept on a tight leash by the school). If you are more powerful than the Fulcrum thinks they can handle, they will strap you to a device at the planet's fault lines and use you as a machine and force you to use your powers to prevent earthquakes. You are also forced to be part of a breeding program in hopes of producing more powerful mages.

Aretuza (The Witcher):

You are a mage in training at Aretuza, and there is a possibility that you are not there of your own free will. You have been physically and emotionally abused by your teachers. If you have elven blood, you have a high possibility of being kidnapped and used in a horrific experiment by one of your teachers that will turn you into a monster. If you fail as a novice, you will be turned into an eel and forced to power the school.

#sorry for making a new poll #but i wanted to include more options #wheel of time #the witcher #realm of the elderlings #broken earth trilogy #wheel of time spoilers #the witcher spoilers #realm of the elderlings spoilers #broken earth trilogy spoilers

[triflingshadows]

people are still reblogging my essun art from almost 2 years ago, so. redraw

#art #broken earth trilogy #nk jemisin #essun #the stone sky #broken earth #fanart

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

Things I really appreciated about the Broken Earth Trilogy

Normal about sex as just a thing that people do, with only as much significance as the people involved choose to give it

Normal about trans people just casually existing

Queer relationships aren't a big deal

Dark themes without getting into misery or torture porn

Bad things that happen are tied into the worldbuilding, not caused by random evil people being evil for the sake of evil

Everyone genuinely thinks that they're in the right (or just doesn't care), and you can see how they got there (even when they're obviously in the wrong)

Allows downtime and breathing room in between big plot things. Characters often spend months or years with not much happening before their lives get disrupted again

At one point a guy who travels exclusively by teleporting is trying to keep pace with a group of people walking the normal way, so he keeps going ahead and striking silly little poses as they walk past him :)

#broken earth trilogy #the broken earth trilogy

[gettingovershame]

Schaffa in The Fifth Season vs Schaffa in The Obelisk Gate gives the same energy as “How my parents were with me” vs “How my parents are with their grandchildren”

#WHERE WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN I WAS GROWING UP!? #the broken earth trilogy #broken earth trilogy #fifth season #spoilers #broken earth trilogy spoilers #the broken earth trilogy spoilers #obelisk gate #the obelisk gate

[xuanelle]

every single one of alabaster's journal entries make me cry but this one especially

#i love him i love him so much #i think abt him and syenite and i break down crying #bracken.txt #alabaster #broken earth trilogy #the broken earth #the stone sky

[fantasybooktournament]

#nk jemisin #the fifth season #broken earth trilogy #sue lynn tan #nina varela #criers war #round 1 #polls #fantasy book tournament