The Hell Season

Trade paperback, 210 pages

English language

Published Nov. 16, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-316-22929-6
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THE HELL SEASON Thomas Wright awakens to discover that his family has vanished. None of their possessions are missing. The clothes that they slept in are still in their beds. All too soon it becomes apparent that nearly everyone in town has disappeared, that only he and a few select others remain.

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reviewed La cinquième saison by N. K. Jemisin (Les livres de la terre fracturée, #1)

La profondeur comme la densité de cette œuvre m’ont émerveillé

J‘avais ce livre depuis bien longtemps dans ma PAL, à la fois à cause de bonnes critiques que j‘avais lues et des multiples récompenses qu‘il a obtenu (dont le plus prestigieux en SF, le prix Hugo, obtenu pendant 3 années consécutives, pour les 3 tomes de la trilogie !). Bref, je me suis (enfin) lancé… et je ne le regrette pas ! Je vous fais le pitch

Nous sommes, peut-être, sur Terre. Est-ce de la science-fiction post-apocalyptique ou de la fantasy ? Ce n’est pas bien clair (et c’est très bien comme ça).

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.

Si c’est la Terre, elle …

Review of 'The Fifth Season' on 'Goodreads'

Took me a bit to get into it, and the changing of character names over time confused me a bit, but once I got past those two issues, it was a really fun read. Looking forward to the next two books to see what happens on Earth in a possible distant future where earth magic is common and nothing is stable.

Review of 'The Fifth Season' on 'Goodreads'

Utterly amazing. This book makes up for all the mediocre stuff I have read this year. READ THIS BOOK!

Ahem. Now to a more detailed review. The Fifth Season is the first book in N.K. Jemisin's post-apocalyptic far future trilogy The Broken Earth. Due to natural disasters the world has changed, and there's only one super-continent now, called The Stillness. There is a lot of seismic activity on Earth, and there's always the looming danger of a Fifth Season, a post-apocalyptic winter when volcanic ash prevents sunlight, sometimes for months, sometimes many years. People gang together in towns that are called comms, storing up caches for a season, divided into a caste system of seven major castes. The safest area in the Stillness is the belt of cities at the equator, where Yumenes is the largest city in the world. In Yumenes there's the Fulcrum, a school of orogenes. Orogenes …

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  • Horror
  • zombies
  • Apocalyptic

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