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Three-time Hugo Award winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.Contents:The Ones Who Stay and Fight (2018)The City Born Great [The Great Cities] (2016)Red Dirt Witch (2016)L'Alchimista (2004)The Effluent Engine (2011)Cloud Dragon Skies (2005)The Trojan Girl [The Trojan Girl • 1] (2011)Valedictorian [The Trojan Girl • 2] (2012)The Storyteller's Replacement (2018)On the Banks of the River Lex (2010)The Brides of Heaven (2007)The Evaluators (2017)Walking Awake (2014)The Elevator Dancer (2018)Cuisine des Mémoires (2018)Stone Hunger [The Broken Earth] (2014)The Narcomancer [The Dreamblood] (2007)Henosis (2017)Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows (2004)The You Train (2007)Non-Zero Probabilities (2009)Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City beneath the Still Waters (2010)
