The Fifth Season

Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel

Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy

***One of Time Magazine''s top 100 fantasy books of all time***

***Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards***

***A New York Times Notable Book and the inaugural Wired.com book club pick ***

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.

''Astounding'' NPR

''Amazing'' Ann Leckie

''Breaks uncharted ground'' Library Journal

''Powerful'' io9

''Elegiac, complex, and intriguing'' Publishers Weekly

''Intricate and extraordinary''New York Times

''Brilliant'' Washington Post

The Broken Earth trilogy is complete - beginning withThe Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate(Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel) and concluding with The Stone Sky (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Nebula Award).

Also by N. K. Jemisin:

The Inheritance trilogy

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Broken Kingdoms

The Kingdom of Gods

The Dreamblood Duology

The Killing Moon

The Shadowed Sun