![]() ![]() ![]() Having overexerted himself in fighting off the Enemy, the city’s human avatar falls into a coma and vanishes. New York is embodied by a young queer black man living on the streets, and the Enemy infiltrates those most dangerous to him: the police. But an Enemy lurks, ready to devour newborn cities on the cusp of coming into their power. ![]() Spun off from Jemisin’s 2016 short story “ The City Born Great,” the novel figures cities as living, sentient organisms that are “born” into human avatars, midwifed by the previous city to be delivered into sentience. After eight novels set on fantasy worlds, Jemisin has turned her sights to ours: Her latest book, “The City We Became,” unfolds in present-day New York City, with its crosstown bus delays, hot garbage reek and all its other mundane problems - plus one large, looming supernatural one. ![]() Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, set on a distant planet prone to calamitous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, made history twice over: in 2016, when she became the first African-American woman to win a Hugo Award for best novel (for the first in the series, “The Fifth Season”), and in 2018, when she became the first author to win a Hugo for every novel in a trilogy. ![]()
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