The Fifth Season: The Broken Earth, Book 1, WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD (Broken Earth Trilogy)

Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards Book 1 in the record-breaking triple Hugo-Award-winning trilogy, The Broken Earth. This is the way the world ends… for the last time. It starts with a great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. Breathtakingly ambitious, blisteringly brilliant and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Broken Earth trilogy - beginning with The Fifth Season, continuing in The Obelisk Gate and concluding with The Stone Sky - is the first series to win the Hugo best novel award three years in a row. A ground-breaking masterwork of co