![]() ![]() Everyone is assigned to a rigid social role in their community at birth and taught to cache food and supplies, just in case the next season is the fifth. ![]() The supercontinent they live on is rifting into two new continents, and massive gouts of ash are shooting into the atmosphere, changing the entire surface of the world and shattering civilization.Īgainst this backdrop of geological cataclysm, Jemisin introduces us to a culture whose foundational principles are rooted in disaster preparedness. In the novel, the inhabitants are facing one of the most awe-inspiring aspects of plate tectonics in their current fifth season. Every few centuries, its inhabitants endure what they call a “fifth season” of catastrophic climate change - sometimes caused by volcanic ash that blocks the sun, sometimes by toxic algal blooms, and sometimes by the mining industry. ![]() "The Fifth Season" takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent – much like Earth's Pangea of some 250 million years ago – that’s periodically wracked by massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Though we have plenty of stories about the physics of space travel and the biology of alien life, very few authors tackle the actual rocky, gassy, molten stuff that planets are made of. ![]()
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