The Fifth Season Archives

'The Fifth Season': TNT Bringing N.K. Jemisin Sci-Fi Novel To Series
Jemisin's The Fifth Season are shaking in their seats (yeah…earthquake humor) over the announcement that TNT is planning to adapt the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi fantasy novel for television. The 2015 novel (the first in the The Broken Earth series) would earn Jemisin the distinction of being the first black writer to win the Hugo Award for best[...]
N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season" Is An Expectation-Breaker
The Fifth Season, book one in her Broken Earth trilogy, gives us a world formed by massive earthquakes and those who can protect others from them. The book focuses on the two main characters (Essun and Alabaster) and their relationship with each other and the world around them as they try to save — or destroy[...]