The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin
In this sequel to the Hugo Award-winning novel The
Fifth Season, the world known as Stillness is on the verge of collapse. This
is the way the world ends . . . for the last time. The season of endings grows
darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun, once Damaya,
once Syenite, now avenger, has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead
there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if
Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far
away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power – and her choices will break the
world. The book has complex characters, detailed world-building, and
thought-provoking meditations on identity and human nature. This book is a
must-read for science fiction/fantasy devotees.
The other SF Fantasy
finalists are:
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
Death’s End by Cixin Liu
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu,
illustrated by Sana Takeda
“Set
in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror. Monstress tells
the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic ware
between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression
and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers
about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step
behind . . . and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken.”
The other graphic story
finalists are:
Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi
Coates
Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous by G. Willow Wilson
Paper Girls, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Saga, Volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan
The Vision, Volume 1:
Little Worse Than A Man by Tom King
by GW
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