This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze—the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years—collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter. original cover of ISBN 0316229296/9780316229296

THE SEASON OF ENDINGS GROWS DARKER AS CIVILIZATION FADES INTO THE LONG, COLD NIGHT. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request that would seal the fate of the Stillness forever.

This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed. The remarkable conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed trilogy that began with the multi-award-nominated The Fifth Season.

FICTION “The Contemporary Foxwife” by Yoon Ha Lee “Stone Hunger” by N. K. Jemisin “Soul’s Bargain” by Juliette Wade “The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness” by William Browning Spencer “Gold Mountain” by Chris Roberson NON-FICTION “The Issue of Gender in Genre Fiction: Publications from Slush” by Susan E. Connolly “The Issue of Gender in Genre Fiction: The Math Behind the Slush” by Susan E. Connolly “Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance: An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer” by Ben Fry “Another Word: Reclaiming the Tie-In Novel” by James L. Sutter “Editor’s Desk: Adding Some Color” by Neil Clarke

extremely rare,very good condition