N.K. Jemisin is a fantasy and science-fiction writer who won three consecutive Hugo Awards — considered the highest honor in science-fiction writing — for her "Broken Earth" trilogy; she has since won two more Hugos, as well as other awards. But in imagining wild fictional narratives, the beloved writer has also cultivated a remarkable view of our all too real world. In her fiction, Jemisin crafts worlds that resemble ours but get disrupted by major shocks: ecological disasters, invasions by strange, tentacled creatures and more, all of which operate as thought experiments that can help us evaluate how human beings could and should respond to similar calamities... nyt
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