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The Fifth SeasonBook

by N. K. Jemisin

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Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Statistics professor at Carnegie Mellon University who writes the long-running blog Three-Toed Sloth and the Bactra Review of books.
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Epic fantasy, but I think it rises above the level of mind candy. The approach to story-telling starts out by looking like bog-standard epic fantasy, if well done, but then gets more complicated and interesting (in spoilerish ways). Even better is the world-building: a planet where plate tectonics is so active that the dominant ideology is that the Earth is our father, and he hates us.

His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for April 2016 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.

bactra.org ↗·2016-04-30

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