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Nora Keita Jemisin (2024) The Fifth Season , UK deluxe limited edition, published by Curious King. One of only 26 lettered copies this designated Publisher s Copy (PC). Signed by the author and illustrator on the limitation page. The buyer receives the rights to obtain volume two and three at publication price. Condition: fine and unread as published. Production details according to the publisher: Limited to 26 copies, the Lettered Edition comes with a custom hand-made wooden box by expert box maker Peter Canham. The cover has a unique purple piece of agate embedded within the wood as has been laser etched with the author and title. The lettering on the spine has been carved in and hand aged by Peter, with a piece of amethyst cut into the block. Inside, the box has been lined in finest purple suedel with a ribbon for retrieving the book. The book inside is handbound of the finest harmatan black leather and has a unique amethyst crystal shard embedded in the cover, with wrap around foil stamping. The boards are 6mm and chamfered, and the book is gilded gold across all three edges. Inside the book there are marbled endpapers (by the amazing Freya Scott) and a further 8 tipped in colour plates. Printed on Magnani Mouldmade Pescia 130gsm by Nomad Letterpress of Cheltenham, bound by Ludlow Bookbinders and signed by both Author and Artist. The Fifth Season as well as the two sequels in the Broken Earth trilogy all won the prestigious Hugo Award making it the first author to ever win the Hugo in three consecutive years. A screen adaptation is currently in development. First and Fine.

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 her son and kidnapped her 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 heartland of the world's sole continent, a great red rift has been torn into the earth's surface. From this crack spews enough ash to darken the sky for years. Or centuries. But this is just the beginning. 'The Fifth Season' is a powerful, epic novel of discovery, pain, and betrayal. It poses the question: how do we build a better world when the end times are upon us?