Three-time Hugo Award-winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A Black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo Award-nominated short story "The City Born Great", a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:

The Inheritance Trilogy:

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
• The Broken Kingdoms
• The Kingdom of Gods
• The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)
• Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)
• The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)

Dreamblood Duology:

• The Killing Moon
• The Shadowed Sun
• The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)

The Broken Earth:

• The Fifth Season
• The Obelisk Gate
• The Stone Sky