Answer for question 4218.

[sabotabby]

[Error: unknown template qotd]It was "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin. Someone recommended it to me (I think funnel101 but don't quote me on that). I asked people on FB for a list of books I should read, preferably in e-form, preferably not written by straight white dudes. (Not that I have anything against straight white dudes, but the majority of books I read last year were by them and that's not the coolest.)

Anyway! Yes. Totally recommended, going to check out the sequels as well. It has cool worldbuilding and political maneuvering and a rather lovely, disjointed lyrical style.

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[firecat]

I love those books. Half a dozen new ideas on every page.

[sabotabby]

It was one of those ones where a few pages in, it was obvious why she'd suggested I read it. I just put a hold on the sequel, which sounds even more conceptually intriguing.

[ironed_orchid]

I keep changing my mind about which book I like best. I usually waver between book two and book three, but without the first those two could not happen.

[sabotabby]

Okay, so I have that to look forward to. :) Given how much I liked the first one, I'm pretty psyched.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I think I recommended it to you, but I was probably not the only one. Almost every time someone I know asks for reading recommendation, more than one person suggests Jemisin. Because she is just that awesome. I loved the hell out of the whole Inheritance trilogy, and the Dreamblood duology, and am eagerly awaiting her next book, which apparently has something to do with volcanoes, because she wrote a blog post about visiting active volcanoes to do research for it.

[sabotabby]

I am excited about her. Given how many awards she's either been nominated for or won, it seems I am not alone in this.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

Just came across some more detailed info on her next book - it's called The Fifth Season, and it's the first in a new series called The Broken Earth. It's slated for publication in early August of this year.

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CAN. NOT. WAIT!

[ironed_orchid]

I LOVE these books. LOVE!

I read The Killing Moon recently, which is in her next series. It was also very good, but it didn't hit me in all the places that The Inheritance Trilogy did, and I haven't got a copy of The Shadowed Sun yet, but it's on my short list of books I need.

[ironed_orchid]

Oh, I don't know if you have read the Steampunk Revolution anthology, but Jemisen's story “The Effluent Engine” is fantastic. There are a lot of really good stories in that collection.

[sabotabby]

I've sorta been avoiding steampunk stuff lately; after initial promise, there was such a flood of bad books that just happened to have gears or dirigibles in them that I'd lost my taste. But that has a gazillion authors I really like in it, so...hold placed.