Category: Science Fiction
Regular price: $11.99
Deal price: $2.99
Deal starts: January 09, 2024
Deal ends: January 09, 2024
Three-time Hugo Award winner and
NYT
bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.
"Marvelous and wide-ranging."
-- Los Angeles Times
"Gorgeous"
-- NPR Books
"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."
-- Entertainment Weekly
Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.