When N.K. Jemisin began writing “The Fifth Season,” the first of a trilogy of sci-fi books, she knew that she would start the story with the end of the world.

N.K Jemisin knows how to build a new world. An award-winning fiction writer, Jemisin has made a name for herself for her world-building prowess in fantasy lands. Her Broken Earth trilogy, a ...

Three-time Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin is one of the greatest world-builders in science fiction and fantasy literature. Even she couldn't have predicated life in its current state.

N.K. Jemisin’s “The City We Became” is a novel concerned with the pleasures and violences of urban life, so it makes sense that reading it feels a little like riding the subway for the first ...

N. K. Jemisin, author of our June pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Liz Flock to answer reader questions on “The Fifth Season,” and Liz announces the July ...

N.K. Jemisin wants to help you build better worlds for your stories The celebrated fantasy author tells EW about her new MasterClass course and gives an update on The City We Became sequel.

Culture N.K. Jemisin Is Trying to Keep the World From Ending The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy made history this year. Now she's trying to make the ...

Jemisin, in this book as much as the first, lays bare the racism, sexism, inequities and unfairness of our world, but also uplifts so many cultures and communities.

N. K. Jemisin is a novelist, but she is also an engineer of worlds and possibilities. In 2018, the science fiction and fantasy author made history when she became the first person to take home the ...

N.K. Jemisin’s latest book is “The City We Became.” What is most remarkable, given the pulp energy of this classic struggle against eldritch evils, is that “The City We Became” is also ...

Celebrated and Hugo Award-winning science fiction author N.K. Jemisin will be in Rochester for an in-person, ticketed event this fall. Jemisin is the keynote speaker at the Oct. 26 event hosted by ...

N.K. Jemisin’s “The City We Became” is a novel concerned with the pleasures and violences of urban life, so it makes sense that reading it feels a little like riding the subway for the first ...