Like the moment of utter silence of an audience after a great musical performance. I wish Hachette Audio had added a few seconds for the listener to gather themselves and let the story sink in, instead of immediately launching into the next without a pause. My only criticism is that there are no pauses in between stories - they are treated like chapters, rather than unique short stories. The narrators all do a great job, and I enjoyed the variety of readers. She comes to this book with an agenda of seeing more diversity in fantasy writing, and she delivers on that, too. I loved the variety of her fantasy worlds, from magic cooking to computers to dirigibles to personified cities, and the differences in her story-telling styles.

I bought this book because I really enjoyed the Broken Earth trilogy, and I enjoyed her short stories even more. I loved the variety of stories - the author, Jemisin, covers a lot of ground. Great! One quibble with the audiobook editingīrilliant writing, narrated well.

Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction).

The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition).

And in the Hugo Award-nominated short story 'The City Born Great', a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul. A Black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises.

In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.ĭragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

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