The Obelisk Gate
Kindle Edition
Orbit · Ebook · August 16, 2016
Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book.
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- Who it’s for
- Epic fantasy momentum with a military edge, built for getting thoroughly pulled in.
- Genres
- Epic Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
- Published
- Orbit, August 16, 2016
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Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request.
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But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world. N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season. Read more
Big-Scale Fantasy
Epic fantasy momentum with a military edge, built for getting thoroughly pulled in.
Come here for
- Military fantasy with epic scale
- A sustained, immersive fantasy read
Expect
- High-stakes, large-canvas storytelling
- A long-form, absorbing page-turn
Where it sits
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 84% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 68% |
| Epic Fantasy | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Literary Fiction
- Dystopian
- Magical Realism
- Authors
- N. K. Jemisin
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- August 16, 2016
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure