The society abounds with stories of what happens when orogenes are allowed to have lives and children. When they've practiced their skill enough, they can literally reshape the entire face of the planet. Not only can they sense earthquakes coming, they can stop them and start them. NKJ: “Orogenes” are a group of people who are born with the natural ability to impact seismic events with their minds. Most of the time they're generally democratic and capitalist, but they have rules set up so that when bad things happen, every community breaks into its own little fiefdom and becomes authoritarian and they kick out anybody they deem useless. So this is a world where, in some ways, the apocalypse happens again and again. It’s some kind of massive worldwide disaster that often comes paired with famine and the breakdown of society. This looks a lot like our own world except periodically - every two or three hundred years - there is a seismic event powerful enough to kick off something that the locals call a Fifth Season. I’m interested in systems that are exploitative towards oppressed groups for specific reasons. One of the protagonists has lived her life as a woman in hiding, effectively similar to a closeted queer person. I drew inspiration from a lot of different oppressive situations. We saw again and again the names of people who had been extrajudicially murdered. I was sitting at home and writing parts of this book as I was watching Ferguson unfold on Twitter. Black Lives Matter and this book were born out of the same anger and pain. Jemisin: As a black woman living in modern day America, I have lots of questions about validity and exploitation. Interview Highlights On the real-world origins of “The Broken Earth” trilogy These transcript highlights have been edited for clarity and length. She is also outspoken about her political concerns, which she has incorporated into her complex fictional world.
It has also sparked a backlash among some conservative science fiction writers and fans.Īs the rare black woman who’s become a marquee name in science fiction and fantasy, Jemisin is a pioneer in a field that’s been dominated by white men.
Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy, which has won the prestigious Hugo Award the past two years in a row - the first time that’s happened since the mid 1980s.
Every so often a science fiction or fantasy series breaks out of the genre it’s boxed into and turns into a wider cultural phenomenon.
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