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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
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- Behind the scenesIt started with a dream
Jemisin dreamed of an angry woman walking toward her, a mountain floating behind her. She woke up in a cold sweat, wanting to know who that woman was and what kind of society had wronged her.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe "you" that worked
Before starting a novel, Jemisin writes test chapters in different tenses and points of view. The second-person test worked so well it became the book's prologue.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA historic Hugo
This book made Jemisin the first African American author to win the Hugo for Best Novel, in 2016. She has said the story was also partly inspired by the Ferguson protests.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe story that became a book
In 2014, Jemisin published the short story "Stone Hunger," about a girl tracking the man who destroyed her town with stone power. It was the prototype for this novel and later appeared in How Long 'til Black Future Month? (2018).
source ↗ - SetupWho's talking?
Pay attention to the voice that calls Essun "you." It knows things only someone very close to her would know. Who is narrating, and why, are questions the trilogy answers later.
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- Behind the scenesBack-to-back Hugos
The book won the Hugo for Best Novel in 2017, a year after The Fifth Season. Jemisin was the first author in more than two decades to win the category two years in a row.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFull-time writer
In May 2016, months before this book came out, a Patreon campaign let Jemisin, who worked as a mental health and career counselor, start writing full time.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesOne story in three parts
Jemisin said writing the trilogy felt like writing one story rather than three books. She kept lots of notes to track a complicated web of relationships and eons of time.
source ↗ - SetupThe silver glow
Watch for the silver threads Nassun starts to see beneath orogeny. They look like a small detail, but they sit at the center of questions the series still has to answer.
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- Behind the scenesThree for three
The Stone Sky gave Jemisin her third straight Hugo for Best Novel, a first for any author, and for all three books of one trilogy. It also won the Nebula and the Locus.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFour volcanoes in four days
Jemisin had never felt an earthquake or seen a volcano. For the trilogy she joined seismologist forums, followed geologists online and visited four volcanoes in four days in Hawaii.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe ending she planned
Jemisin said nothing surprised her while writing the last book: the story ended the way she envisioned it. The surprise came from fans, like how popular Schaffa became.
source ↗ - ReferenceStill not on screen
TNT announced a series in 2017, with Daveed Diggs producing, but it never happened. In 2021, TriStar bought the trilogy for film in a seven-figure deal, with Jemisin writing the scripts herself. Nothing has been released yet.
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