Mar 6, 2020
Andi and Lise dig into multiple Hugo-winner N.K. Jemisin’s amazing and multi-layered The Fifth Season (2015), the first in The Broken Earth trilogy. Andi and Lise talk about Jemisin’s use of point-of-view for different characters, how their stories interweave with the world-building, and the world-building itself, which they found utterly engrossing and brilliantly presented.
Synopsis, from the site Deadline:
The Fifth Season is described as an epic drama set in a
world where civilization-destroying earthquakes occur with deadly
regularity. A small minority of inhabitants has the ability to
quiet these earthquakes, but they also can cause them. The series
follows three women, each of whom possesses these special,
Earth-controlling abilities: Damaya, a young girl training to serve
the Empire; Syenite, an ambitious young woman ordered to breed with
her bitter and frighteningly powerful mentor; and Essun, a mother
searching for the husband who murdered her young son and kidnapped
her daughter mere hours after a Season tore a fiery rift across the
land.
Info about N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken
Earth trilogy
NPR: “’Fifth Season‘ Embraces
The Scale And Complexity Of Fantasy”
Deadline: “N.K. Jemisin’s ‘The Fifth
Season’ Book to be Developed as TV Series at TNT”
Info about N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy
GQ: “N.K. Jemisin Is Trying to Keep the
World from Ending”
This week Andi geeked out about the CW’s Nancy Drew, and the Eddie Flynn series of novels by Steve Cavanaugh. She had to do two because Lise has been too busy editing her new manuscript to geek out properly.
https://lezgeekoutcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/lgo_72_fifth_season.mp3