The people in Hurley’s novel exist in a space fleet like no other, living underground on organic planet-ships in a symbiotic relationship with each. What it does do is blow you away with its prose, characters and storytelling. The Stars are Legionneither copies nor borrows despite being similarly epic. It also serves up a stark warning about the way we treat our own planet.īooks like Dune have variously copied and borrowed heavily from Frank Herbert’s opus with differing levels of success. This is more science-fantasy than science fiction but richly deserves to be included in this list as one of the best examples of modern storytelling. The story then flits between 3 different characters, Essun, Damaya and Syenite and as the tale unfolds, you gradually learn of the connection between all three right before Jemisin pulls another rug out from underneath you. Imagine Vesuvius and then multiply it by a thousand. Set on a world which could well be earth in the future, it begins when a powerful orogene (a person able to control and manipulate the earth itself) tired of his race being oppressed, uses his immense power to fracture a huge fault line across the entire continent. Jemisin has the singular distinction of being the first author to win 3 Hugos in a row between 20 and whilst awards do not always guarantee a good read, I can happily say The Fifth Seasonis a very good read. With the author’s own admission of nearly giving up on it several times, The Fifth Season is even more impressive. Sharing the same epic scale of storytelling that Dune is renowned for, Jemisin’s deviously clever tale is a modern wonder. You cannot talk about books like Dune without talking about The Fifth Season, the first book in the Broken Earthseries. The Blazing World, by Margaret CavendishĨ Books like Dune The Fifth Season, by N.The Stars are Legion, by Kameron Hurley.
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