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This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.

Winner of the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Sequel to the multi-award nominated The Fifth Season. The season of endings grows darker, as civilisation fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant. The Broken Earth trilogy begins with The Fifth Season, continues in The Obelisk Gate and concludes with The Stone Sky.

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter, Nassun, and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world and accepted what her mother won't: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

Lieutenant Cora Harper joined the Systems Alliance to develop and enhance her powerful biotic talents. She was assigned to the asari commando unit Talein's Daughters, where she honed her abilities to become a skilled and deadly huntress. Returning to Earth, Cora finds herself a stranger among other humans, and joins the Andromeda Initiative as Alec Ryder's second-in-command. The mission will send 100,000 colonists on a one-way, 600-year-long journey into the unknown.

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the shadows of its cobbled streets wait the Gatherers - the keepers of this peace. Priests of the dream-goddess, their duty is to harvest the magic of the sleeping mind and use it to heal, soothe...and kill those judged corrupt. But when a conspiracy blooms within Gujaareh's great temple, Ehiru - the most famous of the city's Gatherers - must question everything he knows. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers in the goddess' name, stalking its prey both in Gujaareh's alleys and the realm of dreams.

Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep. Trapped between dark dreams and cruel overlords, the people yearn to rise up - but Gujaareh has known peace for too long. Someone must show them the way.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song. 

Die Welt steht am Abgrund. Mitten im Herzen des größten Kontinents (genannt "The Stillness") hat sich ein flammender Spalt aufgetan, der genug Asche spuckt, um den Himmel auf Jahre hinaus zu verdunkeln. Dadurch bricht das mächtige Sanze - das weltumspannende Reich, dessen Errungenschaften seit tausend Jahren die Zivilisation bestimmen - zusammen, als der Herrscher Sanzes dem Wahnsinn verfällt, und die meisten Bürger des Reiches ermordet werden, um seiner Rache zu dienen.

La terre tremble si souvent sur votre monde que la civilisation y est menacée en permanence. Le pire s'est d'ailleurs déjà produit plus d'une fois : de grands cataclysmes ont détruit les plus fières cités et soumis la planète à des hivers terribles, d'interminables nuits auxquelles l'humanité n'a survécu que de justesse. Les gens comme vous, les orogènes, qui possédez le talent de dompter volcans et séismes, devraient être vénérés.

Das Ende der Welt steht kurz bevor - zum allerletzten Mal. Noch ist es Essun nicht gelungen, ihr letztes lebendes Kind zu finden - und den Mann, den sie einst geliebt hat, bevor er zum Mörder ihres Sohnes und Entführer ihrer Tochter wurde. Stattdessen wurde Essun gefunden: von ihrem ehemaligen Mentor, Alabaster Tenring, dem Zerstörer der Welt. Und er hat eine Bitte, die nur sie erfüllen kann. Doch wenn Essun tut, wonach der Mächtige verlangt, könnte dies das Schicksal der Menschheit endgültig besiegeln. Meilen entfernt wächst derweil die Macht in Essuns Tochter unaufhaltsam.

Das Licht des Mondes verschwand vom Kontinent "Die Stille", nachdem ein flammender Spalt das Land geteilt und den Himmel mit Asche verdunkelt hatte. Nun sagen alle Vorzeichen, dass der Mond bald wieder sichtbar sein wird - doch ob dies die Rettung der Menschheit bedeutet oder ihren Untergang, sagen die Zeichen nicht. Das Schicksal der "Stille" wird von den Entscheidungen zweier Frauen abhängen: Essun, die die Macht ihres Mentors Alabaster Tenring geerbt hat und die Obelisken beherrscht, mit deren Hilfe sie nun endlich ihre Tochter Nassun finden will.

Le retour imminent de la Lune signifie-t-il la fin de l'humanité ou au contraire sa rédemption ? La réponse à cette question repose sur les épaules d'une femme et de sa fille. La première, Essun, entend se servir des pouvoirs qu'elle a hérités d'Albâtre pour bâtir un monde dans lequel les orogènes seraient libres. Mais pour la seconde, Nassun, il est trop tard. Elle a vu ce que le monde avait à offrir de pire, et elle a accepté ce que sa mère n'admettra jamais : qu'il est corrompu au-delà du point de non-retour, et que sa destruction est inévitable.

"La Cinquième Saison" jette les derniers vestiges de la civilisation dans une froide nuit sans fin. Essun - jadis Damaya, puis Syénite, mais qui n'est plus aujourd'hui que vengeance - a trouvé un abri, mais pas sa fille. Son chemin croise à nouveau celui d'Albâtre, le destructeur du monde revenu d'entre les morts, porteur d'une demande qu'elle seule peut satisfaire et dont il ne peut résulter que le chaos.

Nella antica città di Gujaareh, la pace è l'unica legge. Sui suoi tetti e tra le ombre delle sue strade acciottolate vegliano i Raccoglitori, sacerdoti della Dea dei sogni. Hanno il compito di raccogliere la magia dalla mente dei sognatori perché venga usata per guarire le sofferenze del corpo e dell'anima. E possono uccidere chiunque giudichino corrotto.