N. K. Jemisin
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Sep 12, 2026
Aeric AzanaHOST
This is one of the opening quotes for an issue in the 12-part maxiseries Far Sector.
Aeric AzanaHOST
Written by M.K. Jemisin, art by Jamal Campbell, letters by Darren Bennett, this story released in 2019 and, for my money, is still one of the greatest Green Lantern stories ever.
Aeric AzanaHOST
And I just wish someone would ask us to talk about it.
Aeric AzanaHOST
Someone would just, you know, come in possibly with a briefcase shaped thing to make us really like dig deep into the story itself.
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Malcolm Russell NelsonHOST
Sometimes that's enough.
Aeric AzanaHOST
Sometimes that's enough.
Aeric AzanaHOST
And it sure was for one N.K. Jemisin.
Aeric AzanaHOST
N.K. Jemisin, born in Iowa City, Iowa, graduate of both Tulane University and the University of Maryland, is a storied writer.
speaker_5HOST
Literally.
speaker_5HOST
Sonia Hinduja points to Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth Trilogy, and Martha Wells' The Books of the Raksura.
speaker_4HOST
Let's start with Sanderson because I honestly think he has ruined casual fantasy for me.
speaker_5HOST
I hear that a lot.
speaker_4HOST
as intense as a high storm is, at least you can hide from it.
speaker_4HOST
What happens when the planet itself, the very ground you are standing on, is the thing trying to kill you?
speaker_5HOST
That brings us to N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth trilogy, which is arguably one of the most structurally complex and thematic achievements in modern fantasy.
speaker_4HOST
I mean, she won three consecutive Hugo Awards for
Megan WhyteHOST
Or that change in culture from a more orally transmitted thing.
Megan WhyteHOST
I keep thinking about, oh God, N.K. Jemisin, The
Matthew MurrayHOST
Broken Earth.
Matthew MurrayHOST
Which we've also talked about in this podcast.
Misha StantonGUEST
[laughs]
Moiya McTierHOST
[laughs] This is like me trying to get someone to read NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy and not giving it away.
Misha StantonGUEST
Well, Moya, won't you be pleased to know that I just downloaded that series, like-
Moiya McTierHOST
[laughs]
DaniloHOST
I'll also make a rec that I don't have the physical copies with me.
DaniloHOST
I just recently finished the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.
DaniloHOST
The first book is the fifth season.
DaniloHOST
I was thinking about that on the walk over here about how I don't think there's a more diametrically opposed series or trilogy to these books than those books.
AnneHOST
Thank you very much.
DallasHOST
Reminds me of NK Jemisin's most recent trilogy that became a duology halfway through the second book.
DallasHOST
Are you genuinely just like, what the fuck?
AnneHOST
I still haven't finished.
speaker_1HOST
It is the fundamental psychology of the character.
speaker_0HOST
And if we are talking about psychology and intense perspectives, we have to talk about N.K. Jemisin's 2015 novel, The Fifth Season.
speaker_1HOST
Oh, absolutely.
speaker_0HOST
The analysis describes her prose as muscular and intense and says the book opens with a literal apocalypse and never loosens its grip.
speaker_1HOST
Jemisin is doing something incredibly ambitious here.
speaker_1HOST
She balances three distinct narrative threads, three different women named Essun, Damaya, and Syenite.
speaker_0HOST
Okay.
speaker_1HOST
Every chapter carries immense thematic weight.
EvanHOST
Or like Ursula Le Guin is another really good example.
ChadHOST
I've noticed on my clicking about learning things while you're talking that the Children of Earth and Sky book by Guy Gavriel Kay has a very similar, just kind of maybe at a corner of an eye glance, has a similar coloration and image of the Broken Earth trilogy by Jemisin.
ChadHOST
I kept seeing it in the peripheral of my vision and being like, why is Jemisin coming up right now? But these books look pretty similar.
ChadHOST
Yeah.
ChadHOST
yeah yeah they do
DongWon SongHOST
You know, we saw this in the Fifth Season as well.
DongWon SongHOST
The way, uh, uh, Nora Jemisin, N.K. Jemisin plays with, um, that, the, the, the narrator perspective I think really shifts closeness and far.
DongWon SongHOST
And when you suddenly realize the narration is much closer than you thought it was, it's a really startling shift, right? Um, and you can...
DongWon SongHOST
I totally lost my train of thought.
Kerry JacksonHOST
right rob
Robert NealPANELIST
uh switching it up a bit netty okorafor rather than uh nk jemisin still reading nk jemisin but check out mr okorafor's work uh you can also find she's pretty prolific on facebook as well uh she's reserved about what she talks about personal-wise, but she does go into some of her writing stuff on there.
Robert NealPANELIST
She's a good follow.
Robert NealPANELIST
Keeping with books, Jumped on the bandwagon finally, started DigiCrawler Carl, and I think they wrote this book for me.
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