Jemisin's critically-acclaimed take on the venerable Dying Earth subgenre. The Obelisk Gate is the sequel to the excellent The Fifth Season and the middle volume of the Broken Earth trilogy, N.K. But this may be harder than she thought, as enemies are moving against her new-found home and, in the distant south, her daughter discovers that she herself has an unforeseen destiny. Recapturing the Moon requires that Essun find and harness the powers of the Obelisk Gate. One orogene, battered and dying, has a plan to end the Season and indeed all of the Seasons: to recapture the Moon, which was moved out of its traditional orbit more than a thousand generations ago, unbalancing the world. It may last a thousand years and forever end what vestiges of civilisation remain in the Stillness. A new Fifth Season has fallen on the world, the worst one in history.
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